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A HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931.

MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONGE

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TYPHOON SURVIVORS,

THREE PICKED UP BY A.S. HECTOR.

Mesars. Butterfield and Bwire have inform us that they have. received

he

MANGOES FLY.

EGYPE TO ENGLAND IN A

DAY.

Courtesy

In a recent article in this paper,

contributor - Major Brasier, ctor stating that they Crongh remarked that. Hankow have rescued at sex three man and seldom w kanangs and pointed one woman who were clinging to put how the development of com

inercial air services would affect even auch little things in the life of China as the introduction of now fruits. We reprint the following article, published in Londen on August 18, an interesting bom mentary on Major Creacht -pro- lu volcana ndi phocy

arvivors of the

Tropical Trait by Air.

For the first time, mangoes, the much-prized tropical fruit, ste voy on sale in London in a freak con- uition.

Gathered in Egypt late on Batur Board the Imperial Airways flying day evening, they are placed on

boat leaving Alexandria for London with the Indian and African air. innil early on Saturday morning

The mangoes arrive at Croydon on Tuesday afternoon, within ap I can talk to my agent in Canton,proximately 60 hours of leaving hear me speak to her in our house ly by motor-car to the West-End, when my wife, poor Wretch, cannot Egypt, and are conveyed immediato. on the leak. And this I know, being on sale the same evening. for last Tuesday sennight. I do tell Mangocaripon rapidly and her over the telephone that the hitherto, owing to the time occupied may purchase the beach pyjamas by surface transport, the problem she do covet in Lane, Crawford's has been to get them to London be windows at my costs. But on my fore they have become over-ripe home coming she mighty wroth that. I dare to speak to her of silly women as charmers. So I say no more, being in no wise minded to a cool hundred from my pocket.cnf fruit of this nature. snatch a delusion, from a women or Reading in the news sheets, I find ahending about Mr. Wood's Spectacles, which I finally preceive to tell of some coolie, who hath pawned them, and not of the open- ing of criquette..

And.This day a great storm, and I find it do be mighty similar in many ways to the storm of 1000, 10 swiftly

29th.Reading in the newsheet this morning marvel at the rostraint of our police "many whom were, for the pace of a night, kept awako by a wastrel who had skilled over-much bear; yet did no one arise and maghandle him, nor evon dowse him with a bucket of water. And I do command their!|| self-restraint. And curious it be junk Chun You Lée, of Macas, that in the very same sheet, I find Bir A. Thomson to say that the

1st September. This day the bo great fact of heredity is the persist

ginning of our last hot month, or onoo of fundamenth sameness,

which may explain much on both consider upon my earlier days, 1

so I devoutly hops. · Yet, when sides. Later to the Club, where I doubt that the host do last later look to and my wife in the Snake than when I was a grifin, for now pit, but she be not yet come. But seldom do on my fannel or my twood suits from Mr. Giers, until to my great comfert in comes reit be mad Novembor. This morning Betty, Mr. Povy's niece, and she His Excellency the Governor do being alone we talk much over a open the now telephods service be- Binas, of Spanish wine, which she which do bb a great advance and, tween this Colony and Canton drink pretty smart albeit she do they say, of much service to the cough a little therent. But, Lord merchants. But I would that now how her tongus doth run on, how the Telephone Company would seek to improve the service in” «the Mrs. A. is a cat and that her Lord Colony. For it little servcu mo that would be pretty well but for his big belly, that later I grow tired and make excuse to y, when in comes my wife, and all to say again. And they at it so hard I slip away upstairs to the verandah, where I find Sir R. Harpenden and others, where we stay talking some time. Mr. Creed, do, speak of the carelessness of the workmen on tho Peak Tramway, how they have up net divers buckets of whitewash. But I think. littlo of it, as I was pondering in my mind how I should excuse my absence to my wife, who, pour wretch, must by this time be sorely voxed by Mrs, Betty's tongue.. But on my return. I find she had not missed me even.

30th, Lord's Day. This morning I read the news-sheet and ponder

comes, and later is gone. ed much over things politique at again. But now the Observatory do home; For most men admire and locate it before eight of the clock, support the National Government, yet so fast it approaches that hy whick do stand for the prosperity nuncheon all trafle in the harbour of the realm, And moet grievous do celse and about a half after is it to find that Labour alone do three in the afternoon I learn that make a firm stand, and in effect do the centre were passing South of say Thou shall tax all other men, Dumbell Island. And slowly the and abate their earnings, but my wind do moderate, though before earnings thou shalt not abate and six o'clock the glass do drop again. ny doles and pensions thou shalt By about seven all quiet and some not minish,” Which do scom the launches oirt, but again at eight it most naughty and selfish attitude blows a gale from the South-East possible. But I will not believe, and harder than ever before. Buti that the honest working men do not much damage done, save at say so, but the lazy wastrels who, West Point, where many junks are and they can, will draw the dole sink. And when I walk abroad I rather than work, and will marry a hear the most strange accounts. stranger if thereby their allowance For this one hath it that the be made bigger, as is often the uncles be to extortionate that the cano, or so Sir G Downing tolls junks cannot pay to be towed to me, who is lately come from Eng-safety, while another declareth the land. For it would be a most junk people were so set on landing grievous thing that we should have their goods they would not go even violent dissensions in these tron- though the Kau Sing did offer blous times, lost, we become really assistance. And she, so I hear free, like Spain, where all do fight, mighty busy, but not in the front or destroy, and they even have of the Club verandah, wherefore bubonic plague to boot. Before it, seems many busy, merchants do. nuncheon to the Club where Sir R. cry out that she do no work. Harpenden comes to us from Kow-

Ard.Talking with Col. Matthews loon, and tells us that the white of the strike of caddies at Fanling. splodges upon the Peak Tramway And the truth is the youngsters do be monstrous great letters have been out of hand these many which, seen from Kowloon do spell years, because the Club do urt PEAK, and he doubts not shall tackle the matter. But now they have added TRAM hereafter. do, and if the members stand firm Wherent we all wax indignant and the caddies will be quite out of begin to speak our minder play. For though now they bo Creed has it that an enemy from very hot against it, yet the altera Shanghai has done this thing, being tion be in their favour. So be t jealous of our fair prospects, when they are expert at their service,. ho do live so foully ugly & aity. and I am well assured the loss of But Sir Harpenden sars, he learns it is an advertisement to thereafter to a better mind. Yet a month's profits will bring them tempt the strangers from their would they all be the better för a vessels, to travel by the tram, that sound whipping More talk at the profit may result to the Company. Club this evening of the Transway Mr. Ashley, but newly come into advertisement, and all are agreed it our company rethunds us that on

be the most foulé And naughty out- man may do as he will with that rage on good taste, possible, and which is his own, to which Sir H, I hear word of a meeting of pro rejól a pretty hot that that be bad that. But I cannot think the Dires. law though good Shylock. And tors will let it come to such a much else was said that I will not stounde. Caat dico with Mr. Creed write down, leat some day tho and Mr. Povy. Cost me $2. secret of my shorthand be discover

showery day after

dull

ed, and by diary be printed, and heavy rain during the night. More I would not have it disfigured with news from Canton but quite uneer, profane and indecent language, how-tain, and so far as it may be ever, just may be the cause of it,

known, mutters are much as they 31st. This day news of the kero these two month since. From Tanglaze Valley floods, and I do Nanking word comes of floods and of perceive that they are even worse collapse of dykes, so that a man can. than I feared for not only are not but think that in all these years Hankow and its neighbouring cities of civil war China hath neglected well night destroyed, but the foods the works of public safety, and pow are all abroad in five provinces. I do pay the penalty. Yet it be trus walked upon the Harlech road this that the floods do seem to be evening, where I did meet Mr greater than any these five hundred Ashley, the lawyer, who I perooive years. A rare pother among the to be deeply rend, and he tells me brokera here to-day, for the Town that thoroughout history there have Watch give notice that they inay been these great calamities in no mars loiter in Ice House Blroet. China, whether by food or by dis and though the customs is an chee, and that it would seem so to old one, it is a bad one for unless. be ordered by Nature, also had the one passen by noisesome alleyways, teeming population crowded out the there be ho communication between whole world. And so he said it Queen's Bond and Des Vaux Road had happened in Japan by earth from the City Hall to Pedder quaks disaster, elso had their coun Street, shyo by this portion of Ico try proved too small but for thesHouse Büroo Kóreaver, in-thd. Fiant purges of Nature, And, to crowd it is said that many persons, this heidas the Great War in who belong not to the regular Europe, But how these things shall bodies or guilds of the Brokétari do be I knew not who am more fond como pecoding strange of musick and sports than all the But it irkes me little hout. matter of philosophy, let it gogo, for I do no business geem to be sorry comfort to the street, save orgay, bo to dead or destitute.

for that paneyinhäll win at the "TACES, JE"!

(Continued on next Column)

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