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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.'

NOTICE is hereby given of inter-- ruption of supply of electricity

to Various Districts at 7 A.M. as follows:--

SUNDAY, 11TMm Instant:

LAI CHI KOK,

CHEUNG SHA" WAN,

SHEK. LAI PUI,

SHAM SHUI PO (North of

"Arran Street).

The supply will be restored by 3 [901 p.m.

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC LONDON.

LOCAL EXAMINATION PRACTICAL

HE last day of entry for THE

abore examination will be 18th June, 1:33. Entry forms may be obtained from the lecal secretary, Wm. Anderson, c/o The Anderson Music Co., Ltd., Ice House Street, Tel. 21822.

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THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA. TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. ASSOCIATED WITH IMPERIAL & INTERNATIONAL COM- MUNICATIONS, LTD. HONG KONG BRANCH.

FROM June 12, 1933, and until

farther notice, Mr. Laurence Carter will be in charge of the above Company's Hong Kong Branch.

C. C. CLARKE,

NOTICE.

Manager.

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THE SOCONY FILLING TSTATION formerly at City Hall Square has been moved to Chater Boad near Murray Road. Interna- tional Motor Supply Company operators.

TENDERS

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R..

ON HIS MAJESTY'S, SERVICE.

are invited for the of Caulkers (and and Caulking work), Painters

work) to H. M. Dockyard, Hong

Kong.

supply

Scrapers (and Painting and Scraping

Cowl Gal Milk Food

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1933

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The first nine months of a child's life are the most critical. Take no risks--

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is a safe and complete food-rich in natural vitamins and mineral salts-building bone, flesh and muscle in perfect proportions.

Cow & Gate Milk Food

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Est. 1841.

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24311.

London Offee: 53, Fleet Street.

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more power. He is experimenting. Where he sees improvement he pushes on, where nothing results, or danger looms, he draws back.

The" business man's" argument, let the politicians keep out of our affairs and leave us alone" is

RUSKIN TO HIS FRIENDS

JOAN RUBKIN will be remembered not because of his intimacy with the laws of art, but for the matchless quality of his prose.

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He aspired to be more than critic. He attempted the role of a reformer, and in that crusade he wielded his pen not only against the fals and ugly in art, but against auch of the social and economic usages of his times as ho held to be of sorry taste or in rquitable.

He gave generously to charities and to the societies which he estab- lished. Some of those gifts were of public character, but the majority were of the type that letteth not the left hand know what the right doeth.

* News and Views

Straddling the Equator.

In Kenya Colony it is possible to straddle the Equator-to have one foot in the Northern and the other in the Southern hemisphere.

would meet the case. On this oc casion he was taking a mental trip through the sther with Professor Einstein

|SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local

Information has been received. from a reliable source that the Yaumati Ferry Company, Ltd, who are operating the vehicular ferries, Somo such arrangement is, at any intend to issue monthly tiskets for Full particulars In the Silverbeck Hotel, Nanyuki, rate," used by an entomologist of motor vehicles. a diagonal red lino on, the bar my acquaintance to attract his at- will be found on page 11.

The funeral of the late Mrs. counter marks the position of the tention when a rare moth emerges

He places the Mary Bovan who died on Wednes Equator; and though the proprietor from its ocoon.

a delicately adjusted" day night took place at the Pro- might rightly object to customers cocoon on doing the straddle on, bis furniture, balance which rings a bell as soon, testant Cemetery yesterday. De- as it is upset by the moth's smer ceased was one of the oldest" resi- an exterpolation of the line (as a

dents in the Colony having been out here since 1891. mathematician might say) into the gence. hotel garden enables the feat to be

Kowloon Supplement. done with comfort.

I recall an instance of this grace in Ruskin. Recently was heard in The Managerie Lion.”

Baizaolana.

Bulzhe's house in the Rue Ray-

A correspondent from Kweichow nonard has been acquired for the l public, half by the State and half gives a sorry picture of patty civil

one of our magistrate courts a case, "If the boy's definition of the sordid in its details but important Equator as a menagerie lion run- by the municipality, and will be war in the province, high prices enough from certain aspects to at ning round the earth" be accepted, preserved as France's Balzas and stagnant business. The opium

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tract to such a clearing house of sorrow, men who take note of these there is something appropriate in matters. A delinquent was placed thus, juggling with the Equator in un the prisoner's stand: fine Kenya, where lions are common ob young fellow in stature and face, jects of the countryside. but ill-kempt and corrupted with evil communications. The charge against him, stated in a matter-of fact way by a burly policeman, was that he had knocked down his wife

in the street and caused a "dis- turbance.

The climax of such experiences is reserved for Arctic explorers who, standing on the site of the Fole itself, can swing round the whole 360 degrees of longitude by turning

on their beels.

A Public Dormitory,

With the abruptness of justice dispensed in such places, the wife of the prisoner was at once placed in the witness box. Young and of comely face, with the tears still in undried upon her cheeks, she gazed, nffrighted at the magistrate and the unknown crowd, until she had found the prisoner, and her eyes had met his eyes.

Vaguely she heard her name called. Scarcely mindful now of her surroundings, she continued to look toward the place where stood the man she loved..

The magistrate asked: "Is it true that the prisoner knocked you down and treated you so badly, as has been charged? Do not be afraid. Tell me.'

At a free library, London, not long ago, a visitor found most of the chairs the magazine room occupied by somnolent molluscs," whose purposes was palpably not enlighten- ment, but repose. On being awaken- ed one endeavoured to assume sudden interest in the page before him. Some of the occupanta were dozing in front of unopened periodicals, whose contents could hardly be to blame.

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These free sleepers may be to a large extent products of economic conditions or dole-drawers with a leaning to literature.

Dog Rights.

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where Balzac worked in hot wea

Page 12. museum. Parisian #nd provincial dis Crop on which a lot of people de- A Chinese merchant, Ip Lan ciples will be able to worship at the end for livelihood has not been little pavillon in a shady garden very good this year,

Chuen, was given judgment with. ther. They will also see the study costs on a claim for $4,973, being in which he did most of his writing balance still due on 811,000 ad- and his peculiar coffee pot used for vanced for shares in a gambling the innumerable crews which kept concern in Annam which was plan- him awake throughout his nights of nod but never floated. The Acting Herculean labour. It was quite Chief Justice heard the case. normal for him to work until six in the morning.

Tho Rue Raynouard, which Balzue chose in order to be outside Paris, is at the beginning of the now easily accessible and one might almost say central district of Passy. The Metropolitan Police.

Page 7. Forty-five race ponies were yes. terday sold by auction at Happy Valley. All feel under the hammer at comparatively low figures.

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