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No. 22,184 MOANÉŒƒ‡ÃAS BRA**22 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929.

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PUNKAH.

B J. PENN.

"Ah Lin:-You are very fortu nate in having rosy cheeks, as we see only too many girls in Hong Kong with faces like whites brown paper. Tell your tormentors you think they are envious.”

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Well, the Editor didn't seem any too pleased about things when I showed him what George P. Bottle thwaite had given me."Tell him," he snapped testily; taking a vicious hite at a passing mosquito and quaffing deeply of the contents of the office inkwell, "the Daily Press

· Answers to never did have an Correspondents column. Has any. body in Hong Kong EYEB dared to ask

question ?" (Shareholders

33

please note !).

Strolling round town on Friday I don't know why, but the morning, just to see that the mess massive steam mosquito-squasher manda on Thursday was being tidied erected outside the Editor's office up properly, I walked across Statue has been very quiet and well. Square to make sure that my bank behaved lately, But wait till two -"my" bark, please note was of them get busy on the corner of stil in good order and condition. Queen's Road and Pedder Street I did not go inside, for when I do then we shall see and hear some there is always a lot of wholly thing! I only hope these truly annecessary and useless argument infernal machines will be in full about overdraft which invariably blast some afternoon when the sanoye all those taking part in the Sanitary Board is sitting in zalema These warm days Incesion just across the way. Mean. positively refuse to get into beat while my old friend the Editor, no ed argumente. Later on, when the longer harrassed by the devilish weather gets cooler, I don't mind din and foul fumes of the mosquito so much, but just now-no

squasher just outside his window,

Interesting experiments ineon- pursues the even tenor of his way, nection with carrier-pigeons were While assuring myself that the his thoughts harmoniously tuned to made during the week. A bird was fabric of my bank was in no danger the soothing hum of the electric released at Stonecutters' Island at 11 a.m. with a message for the of crumbling, and that no white fan on his desk and the happy Sweeper of the lawn at Govern- ante, were 'andermining the massive tinkle of the cash-register in the ment House, The bird flew strong- marble and porphyry pillars, I ob- cashier's office. [Probably before ly in the wrong direction and served certain strange excrescences this gets into print (if it does) he lighted in an exhausted condition attached to the supports on will be frantically raving and shak-near Amoy. In any case,

ing an impotent fist at the nerve-weeper would not have received upper floors. The said excrcs- cences appeared to be something tacking, lung-poisoning, eye blind the message, as he was at Wan. in the nature of life-saving devices ng contraption which, after a chai with friends at the time. -not for holding rockets to be fired period of quiescence, has burst into second bird, released from, Takeo at thips in distress in the harbour active eruption again. Such is without a messago for the G.O.C. but for providing means of rapid life.]

China Command," was shot dead by egress from those within in

a Swiss gunboat doing target prac moment of emergency. Evidently George P. Bottlewaite says he is tice in Bantry Bay. A third pigeon nobody in "my bank intends to rather pleased with the reprints of was given a page of the " Directory be isciacrated. Trust the bankers news items which appeared in the and Chronicle of the Far to be on the job when it comes to Daily Press 23 and 60 years ago. to take to Fanling but, while rest- *safety first gadgets-its us poor On the other hand, he suggests ing in a paddy field near Pine- overdrafters who need assistance 1 that the Editor would brighten our apple Pase, was tossed by a water..

senseless. However, I am watching very close dull days considerably if he in buffalo and picked up y for a demonstration some morn. eluded a few of the Replies to It was sent back to Hong Kong ing early of life-saving practice in Correspondents" from the back in a crate with an American bull front of Status Square.

fles of the "D.P." In proof of firich and a Siberian lianet, and all this contention he gives me the three were eaten by a cat at a following which, he sweers, ap- deserted railway aiding. The page peared in the columns of this jour of the lirectory was not found. zal when the Botanical Gardens were merely a flower-pot and when toolies first learnt to lisp the word

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Did you hear that one about the well-meaning welfare worker who

I am waiting, with my camera, to see the manager come burtling through the air from tapside, load ed with ledgers and those accursed we beg to remind you" forms,

visited a coolie from Hopam who I am waiting to see some of those

" AM: wae dying at Wanchai? athletic young men who sit behind.

Fizen:-Yes, you may really said the W.W. in Cantonese, "i the bars all day show their strength and agility by gliding to earth from put up your hair provided it is sce you have not long, to live, the upper storey, laden with tone with your mother's approval. Long Tell me your name and I will tell of bullion in their muscular arme hair soils the neck and shoulder

your mother!" And, with his and clenching the life-line in their of the drese and mantle, which is dying breath, the coolie whispired,

a disadvantage. But the choice"My mother savees my name." I am hoping to see the whole staff do flying leaps off the rests with a girl's mother." verandah (via the life-saving outfit, of coume), and rush headlong in at the front door to put all their bocks and bars of gold back safely back into cold storage. It will he a great eight-and may I be there

teeth.

to Beel

!!

Who'll buy да almost new William:-August 27, 1977, was Panama hat, made in London and Monday."

bought at Suez? I has a swell hatband two inches wide; super half, bright livid green; lower half, blinding blazing red Or, George P. Bottlethwaite says, it may be traded for an umbrella, overcoat, pair of skates, ear-muffs, or a grand piano.

"Ah Fong:-Some people say that camphorated chalk has a ten. dency to make the teeth brittie, but certainly not to decay. Exact With so many hotels out of actions the reverse, as a matter of fact, for so long, the "Peeping Toms "

of Hong Kong have had little

chance lately of engaging in their

"George Hall:-No. George. It's hard to tell by a Chineze aefarious habit of prowling about flangel coins would not betray Boy's" words whether he loves at night in offices and on verandahs prospective cumahaw to bar coolies.

over-looking bedrooms. Some of On the other hand, if you hapa fellow or hates him. While eat

us may remember what happened pened to drop a 30-cent piece made ing my tiffin the other day in a

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Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (August 24.)

1.:

Bunday.

,August 25.)

pinos.

Queen's Theatre:

Star Theatre: "Maxim's Bar Boy"

Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Dinner Dances; H.K. Hotel,

Baseball: Hong Kong. Fili Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Tides:-High: 12:41 am, and 1.23 Powder Myp.m.; Low: 6.54 am, and 7.10 p.m.

World Theatre: Detectives"

Maxim's Bar Star Theatre: Boy."

St. Bartholomew. Lawn Bowls: Division Police v. Taikoo, Kowloon C.C. v. Craigengower, Kowloon D.R.C. Kowloon B.G.C.; Civil Service . Recreio. Division II: Taikoo v. Back" Civil Service. Recreio Yacht Club, Kowloon B.C.C.-Kowloon C.C., Craigengower . Hong Kong Electric.

Baseball: B. China e.. Japanese. V.R.C., Night Feto, 9.15 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Four Walls.". World Theatre: "Red Lips.", Star Theatre: "Gigolo." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and Repulso Bay Hotel, 8.80 p.m.

Tides:High: 11.28 s.m.; Cow: 5.09 ́a.m., and 4.13 p.m..

European Maile:-Inward: Europe vid Negapatam (Garbets). Outward: Europe via Marseilles (Hakoraki Maru), è a.m.; Europe vid Victoria, B.C. (Tyndareus),

10.30 a.m..

Tea Dance: Bepulse Bay Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Tides:-High: 12.08 a.m. and 12.90 p.m.; Low: 5.55 am and 6.42 p.m.

Tuesday.

(August 27.)

H.K. Stock Exchange Settlement

Day.

Water Polo: V.R.C.. #B.” K.O.8.E. "B" Chinese "B" Kowloon "B."

+

Queen's Theatre: "None but the

European

Mails: - Loward: | Brave:". Europe vid Negapatam, papers only (Kumsang).

Monday, (August-20,)

Water Polo: Somersets v. V.R.C. "A" Kowloon "A" v. Royal Navy, V.R.0., 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Back."

World Theatre:

Powder My

Detectives"

World Theatre: Th Caardboard Lover.".

.Star Theatre: "Fazil,"

Dinner Dances: H.K, Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8:30p.m.AL

Tides:-High: 1.97 am and 2:56 p.m.; Low: 8.15 am and 7.39 p.m. European Mails Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Athos II), 1.30 p.m

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