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devoted special study to the nye, and to ite efficiency under diffusent circumstances and 'conditions.
NOTES BY INE WAN
"At the special inquiry appolated by the Board This afternoon the Buff" meet, the Byth
of Trade, and presided over Sir Francis Mowatt, G. C. B,to inquire into the cáze of Mr. Trattien.. Coy, Royal Garrison Artillery, in the semi- fiusl of the Longkong Water: Polo, Shield
for the purpose of compelling him to give up competitios, and a good tusule is anticipated, DEAR SIR,Herewith I beg to e cloin copy the certificate he hold, the principal witness both teams, bolay very well matched. The of what we venture to think is a highly impart called ba babalf of the Board of Trade as majority of the Artilleryman in the 87th Corset communication which has just been ad- team were quite new to the game about six dressed to the Board of Trade relative to the against Mr. Traulen was Dr. Sir William weeks ago, but since that time they have prac composition of the new Departmental Coin-buy. F. R. & Sir William Abney gloomy prediction of the individual who not
one who has advised and acted for the tized very hard, and I shall not be surprised to mittee which bas been appointed by the Presidending member of the Royal Society and see them in the fall., The Buffs" have also ent of the Board of Trads to consider the much got a good lot of men, and took third place atwexed question of the Colour-ision Tests Board of Trade in the matter of colour vision
were adopted. the god of last season amongst the ten trains which are at present applied to candidates for since the recommendations of the Royal Society that contented, being beaten only by the V. Manters and Matas certificates undeŸthe Noard
of Trade, *
R. C. C. V. G..
The V.R.C. also meet the 0.Y,C. In the
semi-fosi of the Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition on Tuesday next, the aud ́August, at 5.45 pm, and this, as usual, will be the hardest and fastest game of the Boston. Both teams have got new bland in them this year, and are in the pick of condition.
T. W. MOORE,
Secretary.
kind of sport one cares to mention-golf, with its iced ball' or "topped" or "pulled" or "bunkered"; the Turf, with its innumerable slang expresslops both outside- on the "Bat" and inside the "palin's"; bij liards, with its "dukes" and "hard lines" A. S. WATSON & CO., swimming, with its "spurts;" tennis, with its "love;" and so on ad infinitum. In all con- science, English games are bad enough so for as the use of slaug is concerned, but their slang fades into insignificance when compared with the slang employed by Ame rican newspaper reporters, in describing cer- tain characteristic -American games, more particularly baseball which no sometimes roo played at Happy Valley when the American Fleet is in Hongkong. There has been a controversy proceeding in an Americab jour nal as to whether the use by a reporter of this "baseball language" is justifiable. One writer, in defending baseball slang, says that "ever since baseball began, it has had a language of its own. The slang that the
[Enchisure} baseball writer is accused of slinging so pro
The Imperial Merchant Service Guild,
Liverpool, fusely has become inseparably a part of the
July 5th, 1910. game. It is hot off the bat, it is brief
*M. 11911 10" and graphic. It tells its story tertoly
Sir,-With reference to your communication and always to the point," As an example of that vividness and conciseuess which
of the ist Juan, in which you were good enough one of Hongkong's interport reple to lafarm on that the President of the Board of ought to be comployed in describing any game, the expert gives the following as being as
sentative against Shanghal to the Interport Trade was about to appoint a small Depart Water Polo last year. L. E. Lammert mental Committee to advise as to what changes, Į nearly as possible idcal-The Grays and be Hustlers slam-banged each other in the undoubtedly the best goalkeeper out East, if any, appeared advisable in the system of but will play at full-back, at which he is sight tests now in force at Board ci Trade final game of the series yesterday afternoon, and the Grays ran away with candy, 4 to 3. pretty good, although not a very fast swimmer; examinations, I may say that the Guild, having Both teams uncorked the ginger bottle at the be played well in goal inst year in the Hong-received information through the medium of gateway and-danced through the whole per-on-Shanghai water polo contest. H.A. Lam- this Committee, have now bad as opportunity
mark does not scam to be playing as well as in of studying it. formance for the suappiest work of the sea-
former years, bus is still dangerous in the fos- sos. Rock was the star with the stick. The
ward ljus, A. Ellis, the yanugest'swimme: little Centerdale fad toed the plate with two
in the team, is a fairly good swimmer, and in the Gith, bumped a bender on the trade plays well as a forward, „. Forbes fills the mark, and zipped it to the fance, for a triple. position of goalkospor very well.' A. V. Barcos ile encored in the seventh for a smacking an old and safe potuist, and fills the position Robert Porter & Co.'s single, and the bleachers acroplaned their full-back A
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The V.R.C. team will consist of;—A. A Claxton, A. H. Carroll, L. E. Lammert, H. A, Lammett, &. S. Elis, J. Forbes and A, V
Barios.
Claxton is undoubtedly the fastest swimmer in the team and will play at centre forward. Carroll is about the next best swimmer and can be relied upon to fill any position. 1 think his place will be at contre hail;
of
The CY.C. will be represented by:-R. O emotions as two more tallies tickled the Witchell, C, J. Cooke, Carl Buoje, T. Logao, scoreboard," A touch of the picturesque is Witchell, Rose and Heigh. Bob Witchell generally considered to be desirable in de-
is undoubtedly one of the best water polo scribing a game, but there appears to be players in Hongkong, ond at cautre half in very rather too much of the picturesque, about good: represented Hongkong against Shang- the baseball writer's style. There appears hal last season. Couzu, another old player, to be a teadency towards an extended use. also played against shanghai last year, and to very good as fail-back; hu is, 1 think, the of slang in connection with nearly all Logitest swiminor to this team. Cari Busja is lish games, but it is to be hoped that the quite as to the game, but a time ought to time is yet far distant when our football make a good poloist, Tomaly Logan has proved teams "uncork the ginger bottle" ur the himself a fira class swimmer, and although this is his firm your at polo, he has filled A. S. WATSON & 00. spectators "accoplane their emotions" when
their favourites "run away with the candy." the position of contre forward admirably, and needs watching. G. Witchell has improved a lot this year in the forward line, but still lacks the dish of a good player. Ross is another new man to the game, and seems a trifa slow to fill bis position as a forward. Heigh seams to feel a bit strange in goal, but is improving fast,
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MARRIAGE.
COLUMNUI V. KUBBAR
(18 As, was stated in a paragraph appearing in yosterday's issue, settlers on the northern coasts of Queensland find that the most pro úlable products from tropical plantation are obtainable from the cocoanut: ilongkong investors who have speculated heavily in the rubber estates of the Malay States may be interested to learn that the cocoanut main
On Jolt as, igro, at Kuling, Kinklang, the Ven, E. Judd erant, Archdeacon of Hong kong, to Lilliss-Sara, youngest daughter of the late W. 1. Digby, Esq, and of Mrs. Digby of Most Lodge, Co. Galway, Ireland.
DEATH.
On July 25, 1912, at Shanghai, Claude Louis, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. de Sezuntains an equally sound reputation as a pay-
ing-product_in_the_Straits Sciticments and British Malaya. Even when the rubber
180x5 Celegraph market was on the rise, stald veterans of
The Hongkons
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1910,
SLANG.
"JELLY BUG".
SANITARY BOARD.
The following items are included in the orders of the day for the meeting on Tuesday cext at 3.45 p.m. ¿—
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Reply from Government relative to the re moval of the urical of Salisbury Road.
Letter-from-Government relative to the Pok- fulam water supply.
Report of the committee relative to special care of graves in the Colonial cemetery,
Report the cammlites, appointed to con- sider the question of suitable sites for fat-boil. ing establishme its.
Minute by the Head of the Sanitary Depart
the Malayan plantation fields continued to keep a firm hold ou their coconut in terests. Out of the shrewdest business men in the Straits declared not very long ago that long after the rubber boom had.
Report of the committen appointed to inves Journalists are often twitted with a predi- become a thing of the past the cocoabul lection for the use of slang. There can be would still remain the most solid of alligate the state of affairs existing at the latrine Minute by the Head of the Sanitary Deport tiple doubt that there is a good deal of slang investments in Malaya. It appears as though adjoining the Hang Hom Docas,
ment relative to the proposed depinmental in modern journalese. Journalese itself is this prophecy were to turn out to be entirely a slang language in the estimation correct. la despite of (or probably because disposal of refato for 1941. of the purist to style, and without admitting of) the abnormal-speculations-ikat-bave that extreme view as being accurate, it can been made in rubber of late, the position ofment relative to the constructios of a mosket not be gainsaid that many reportorial phrases the cocoanut plantation companies has stif and slaughter house-at Aberdeen, that could hardly obtain the imprimatur of fened considerably and the price of copra Lindley Murray are to be encountered every has gone up to a very high figue. Copra, it day in the Press of the world. Id Hong- may be explained, is the out, dried and bro- kong we get into the habit of introducing ken; of the cocos palm and is exported in "pidgin" English into our every-day conver- great quantitier from the Malay States. "It sation and one may hear this kind of slang yields a valuable oil much in demand for In any men, club or dwelling-house from the nosp making. It is somewhat strange to Peak to the Fraya. We use it in our or think of a speculative world gone rubber dinary speech and it soon becomes a commad when such, a sound product as the poncat part of our domestic language. coconut, growing cheek by jowl with the Newspapermeo, again, are not so blamale rubber tree, is passed by unheeded of the for having slang jargon of their own as investor.
for perpetuating through their ocwspapers
the slang of other people. Every trade or
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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mosquitoes,
We notice that one of the Secretaries of the We are strongly of opinion: ibat the sam. Committee la Dr. William Wation, also a pro- position of the Committee is one which calls the Royal rate, who
to Sir William Abody at the Royal Collage of your paties of this matter would lick our for a considerable amount of criticism, and understand has acted, or is acting, as assistant the care of Mr. Traules Dr. Watson tendered vary sincere gratitude, also the gratitude of Science. It should be borne in mind that at mariners generally.—I am etc.,
evidence in sapport of Sir William Aboey. Then again, amongst those present at the Special Examination of Messin, Trattles and Glover by Sir William-Abony, previous to the | lequiry presided over by Sir Francis Mowatt, Was Dr. T. H. Parsons, F.R.C.S., and, according to the Board of Trade, be agreed absolutely with the decision' which was' come to by Sir William Abney in failing Mr. Trattles. Fur ther, similarly to Dr. Wa'son, Dr. Parsons gave evidence in support of Sir William Abney, as against Mr. John Trattles, whose livelihood was at stake,
From the Board's leitor, to which we have. referted, we took it that representativa shipping organisations were not to be invited to sit on the Committee, on the ground that the Board had deliberately decided in avoid this method of constituting the Committee as paruitable, having regard to the nature of the subject to be lavestigated to the camber of interests that would require representative. We naturally assumed from this, and from the fact that the Board of Trade were not themselves intending to be represented; that the Corvaitted was to be a small and strictly impartial one and, pro- suming that was the desire of the Board of Trade, the Guild were not disposed to trouble you further regarding it,
We fear, that it would be difficult to defend the appointment of two witnesses to take part in the deliberations of this highly important Committes, whose evidence against Mr. John testimony to bis capabilities and efficiency as Teattles was thrown over in favour of practical an Officer in all fospects and especially so when the side of "Those who supported Hr. Trattles has been completsiy ignorea.
A gresiaht of p-jediced opinion is, in the first place, thrown into the composition of the Committes which, we suggest, should have been most carefully avoided. If the inclusion of the scientists referred to was deemed re-
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THE SHANQUAI CRISIS.
The reaction which set in in the rabber mar ket in Shanghai recently is yet another forcibla reminder of the fundamental principles of speculative enterprise. Judging from the seriousness of the altuation obtaining in the Northern Settlement it would appear that the
many chickens would come bome to rooft long ago gave expression to the opinion that before this rubber business was over" The mejority of the abforitoate people who was after all right in his sinister prophecy.
seem to have suffered Indirectly as tusolt of the doancial cataclysm were the Chipers i am..
concerus helped them out of their difficulty by. have happened had mai some of the boundar
in Shanghai who has invested the saphemistic advancing loans. There is a certain gentlemas expression "Go and eat some hay” when he : wishes to call anybody a donkey. It certainly strikes me that it is a mild way of putting, it but nevertheless it serves its purposu 'kd-" mirably. At all grants, those who were not or would not be shrewd sanough to foranus the piifalls attendant upon the rubber fever and thus prevent the fiuaticial catastrophe need the bay very badly and a lot of it too. For our past, we should fesl davoutly thankful that the ad fate of Shanghai has not overtaken us, for
konck of constantly threatening us in a vagus the spectra of bankruptcy has an unhappy
sort of way. Valike. the gecile cynic who calmly declared that it will surva su a" wholes some lesson to Shanghai, I can afford to ba generous enough to fully sympathise with hurled headlong into ruin through no fault of the bons fids sufferers who hava almost been But I am afraid sympasky on an thate owa. occasion like this is cold comfort.
FRILLS AND flounces.. Tas local Courts, despite the abuse of Ura- ly sparke which are such a prominent feature of the Divorce Dizision of the 2. Sise at home, ara nevertheless wat is their moltios.
During the woo at last a portion of the Paisas Judge'e sims which would certainly
quisite by the Board of Trade we, in a sense.
bave sufficed for iba bearing of an ordinary of strict justice, would ask why those who have brought the present tests seriously into ques tion have been provided with no opportunity summary action was taken up by a dispos bi- pf taking part in the doings of the Committee? tween a local dress-paker and a'lady resident, We are "sorry that we, and it au obliga because the cut of certain blauses did not ex. tion upon us to express our profound sur-actly coincide with her views about Dame Fathe
prise and disappointment at the nominations on. The beauty of the thing is that at the and But, we now bad that the situation is far which have been made, 1 is farthest from of the morning's bearing, the hingating parties our desire to cast any personal reflection what had gone no further than, when they sispped different from that which we considered wa had a right to anticipate. The composition of ever upon those holding the distinguished into Court, for the very simple reason that present to explain the why and wherefore of this Committee is such as to bring its utility names which we have mentioned. They are owing to less the defendant could not be. into grave question, however able and distin-known and recognized as mas of great attain- guished each member of it may be. In thements, but it is now a quasilën as to whether der poziti, and her husband after a baroic first place we notice that eleven gentlemen their matured judgment on former occasions- attempt did not feel equal to discussing with bave been selected to sit upon the Committee. on which the Board of Trade acted-was right | the modiste the highly feminine considerations Of these ons is the Secretary to the second or wrong. In the capacity of witnesses they largest Association of shipowners in this conc-would have a perfect right to attempt to viadi try. Another is a distinguished underwriter cate their opinions, but we cannot admit this whilst another is one of the leading members right in respect to their acting as members of of the nautical profession and ao Elder Brother the tribuqal itself, of Trinity House. Yet the fact remains that the Guild, which repressols many thousand corti Acated British Captains and Officer'), and which is responsible for the iminente amvust of agita- tion which has arisen over those eye-sight tests, are excluded from what we suggest is their undeniable right to representation.
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The Guild had hoped to co-operate as far as possible is the direction of bringing the deliberations of the Commities to satisfactory issue, bat, as at pressat edvis ed, this appears to be impossible. We de not, koow whether any of the medical or surgical aociaties intend to take action, but the Guild (hemselvai view the conflitution of the Commilles as a whole with grave dissatis. faction, for any recommendations which may be made by the Commalute cannot possibly command that confidance which is necessary It for the purpo e of removing, once and for all, the serious doubts and difficulties which exit at present in respect to the Board of Trade's tests in colour-vizion,;
But there is a still moto serious factor to b: taken into consideration. The Board of Trade's action in respect to those oye-sight tests it impugned cat nearly a much as that of the Royal Society whose recommendations the Board adopted in the year 1892. | now; we trust, conclusively proved that these texts, and more pinicolarly so the tests applied to candidates on appeal after failure in colour
credited and useless for their parpose. They vision by Sir William Abs07, F.RS., are dis have been the means of inflicting grave injus- tices, whilst, on the other hand, it is possible that they bave enabled me to pass" whose colour-vision has bena defective and dangerous for sea purposes,
involved. Now the question naturalıy arisent Is it talt for the judge that hit sober trap. quillity should be rudely disturbed by the
I don't know, whether the suffragettei hava Court-room being turned into a Paris duism? succeeded in proving to the majority of mea their right to the vole but i have no besitation in saying that they sieunequivocally qualided to sit as wome: judges in military disputes and sock-like things. Then there would be chance of the decision arrived at being at least compatible with jqstico.
OPPONENTS (?) OF HOUSE OF LORDS. Probably, the apparent inconsistency of the Liberal Government, whether unconscions or otherwise, has struck few observera. The fol- lowing paragraph taken from that esteemed jourmat the Stafaiman throws no interesting side-light on the new Peers' List. Hera is the paragraph in question:Whatever designs Mr. Asquith's "Administration · may have We trust that you will.be good enough to lay in the House of Lords their attitude towards the Upper Hoora bax not prevented them from our views before the President of the Board of Trade, submitting as we do that the selection creating seven new Pears, all of whom are of the members of the Committee ander notice Liberals and praisimably doubly "doughly up- is a matter where careful re-consideration in ponenix of ike Assembly which túy are to udur.. (A skrowdly unkind smile, those two last argently necessary.—I am, tit, '
words 11)
(Sigond), T, W. MOORE;
Secretary,
Marine Department;
Board of Trade.
THE directors of the British North Borneo Co. recommend a dividend of 18. per share for the past year, which represents 5 per cent. This marks a farther advance. For seven years to 1904 the Company paid 1 per cent each time,
1908 4 par cent. for the next years 3 per cent, kad for 1997 and
‚BEER" AND "BISCUITS,
Here is another journalistic ebullition, which might possibly be considered unholy by those against whom the present Liberal Government are waging a relentless wat. This time the smitee of the blow is the Calcutta Asian i-The cow aristocrata cre all well up to the sample of most modera creations? Tea, Lotton, Bricks
cuits and so forth to Dabreit, wa' suppose it is." Steamers, Engines, etc, etc) But as we have already lo:s of Bear, Boots, Baltons, Bis. THE Praung Garcite understands that the re-alright! We are not, however, by any meAUS cent find of tin on properly at Tronoh is of a sut whether the Rads are as wise as they most extensive kind, some ponions having a thinks for it is easy enough to say. “{""als forde high a valce as ninety caties par cable, yard. and toffs" when you are not one, but when This in conjunction with Mr. Rempien Joses' you are given a coronat, and a real lord greets who have faith in, the continued prosperity of new coronets be depended upon to vote solid the Tronoh mining district.
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When the matter was, on our behalf, brought Minute by the Head of the Sanitary Depart balore the House of Lords by the Right Hon. The Assistant Secretary,
particular case of Spises, Trattinè and Glover- meal relative to a klaughter board at Sam Shui the Lord Muskarry, who laid stress on the Correspondence velative to warning the candidates who had besa failed in these eye. public against encouraging the breeding of sight tests-and mad for the appointment of
■ Select Committer, the noble Lord who represented the Board of Trade, Lord Hamil. ton of Dalecil, after an ominous threat to the effect that the Board had every intention these gentlemen, stated that the Board of taking away the certificates held by
were of opiniod that the tents, as present carried on, were efficient, and that they did not consider that any case had been made out for a Briect Committee. But, evidently as result of the case of Mr. John Tratsles, whose approve the appointment of the Hosparable President of the Board of Trade has changed Mr. Honry Keswick to be an unofficialmem. his opinion which is now in absolate accord
without avail at the time. bar of the Legislative Council ofca Mr. W. Jace with that urged by Lord Maskerry, bot Giarion resigned.
Daring the course of the Dabats referred to,
THE attempted assassination of Seiftur Meura, ex-Premier of Spio, la Barcelona was no doubt das is Senor Maura's severe repression of the rayolt in Barcelona in 1959, H.E. HB LIANG, Viceroy of Manchuria, accord. ing to a Mukden telegram, has boirowed Y. 700,000, at 61 per cent interest, from the Yokohama Specie Bank för five years,
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profession has its slang terms. Even amoDB THE Geimin Vail of the joth June was do. His Majesty the King has bees pleased to defence was taken in hand by the Guild, the discovery un private land should reassure those you an "as of us," what thea? Can all these
the clerical brethren one will find alsogʻlo. use. For instrace, who but a cleric would livered in London on 29th July,
op
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Lord Hamilton of Dalsell stated that, having communicated with Lord Rayleigh-in Past
for "dawa with the Lords? We have out daubisi! A SERIOUS elečiric pramway accident is raport.
· ROOSEVELT'AND A FOKER PUK. ed from Tokio, in which over thirty passengers were more or loss seriously injured On the Once on a western trip. Mr. Roosevelt stop. morning of the 17th instant, whilst a car was ped at a small town in Kansze. At the station standing near Akasaka-mitsuks, another car the President was expected to spy a few warda
ever think of styling as a "guinea pig" one A. REGULAR passenger airship service was of the poorer and unattached members of inaugurated at Lucerne 00 241b-last....... the cloth who for that sum will fill a pulpit THE Hoogkong Ice Co., Ld, aro declaring an LONDON cow possesses ite Chinese restaurant when the rightful occupier in bard pushed, interim dividend of two dollars per share for that is to the West End. Society has taken
to chopsticks, and after the theatre Londoners Prazidopt of the Royal Society, and one who,
came up at full speed from bekled and crash; à to the assembled crowd, and he chose his far- 'Lawyers havq"'n slang of their own just as the half-year ocded gath Juns, 1910.
are tasting a Chinese supper at the sign of the we think we are right to saying, took a leading to the tallonaty car. The car, which was ourite text of face suicide" as being most up- speaking he have the London costermongers, Eoglieb 5888. Lemaire and another gentleman from
oat of control, was detailed by the impact.propriate, to the district. While University men are notoriously slangy. But, Shanghai have arrived at Taiping to complete Golden Dragon, in Denman Street, Piccadilly. part in framing the recommendations relaïlva
the whole, slang would appear to pertain the purchase of the Taiping Rubber Estates A Bio tiger, which bad carried away overs! To the eye-sight tests which exist at presen! Great excitement was caused among the pas. noticed a man bearing thres email children on berd of cattle from 'a kampong in the Raabte bad received a letter from the noble Lord
carrying two bables. -The President's spich were lojared, more to sport than to any other sphere of Co.
was going along smoothly when suddenly the present at the Debate, bat authorising Lord human activity. We confess to a knowledge WE have received from the Japanese Cop district, has been at fist shot down by the regretting that it was impossible for him to be ages of both cars, and over thinly persons his shoulders, and beside kim stood a woman of the slang of some games, locluding "soculete a copy of a pamphlet on the climate Penghulu. A huge snake was also killed s Hamilton of Daisall to say that he did not An additional regulation under the Liquor man with the thres children broke in with a voice
Raub after I had swallowed two goats the
thick the Board of Trade could be wrong in Ordinance published in the Gazelle provides that could be heard a quarter of a mile away r2 andˇ"rigger" as weil as óf cricket, io of Obama and Vazan, a summer resort near!
previous fight.
following the advica of Sir William Abney, that "All liquids of any kind added to dati-Hey, Teddy," he shouted, "chu you beat this? Nagúaki, * any newspaper account of which you may
ema part and three of a kind and a paired dog find that a "rot sat ju" or Joses sent down
This therefore amounts to a preconceived able liquors in band in the process of breakink it's a fall housh, Taddy, triplets and twinsj
hail fanb. corker. Or perhaps the "googly" bowler
apiplon which, with the greatest respect to the down shall be deemed
the stock books of is put on to bowl, Doubtless the reporter
distinguished noble Lord, is, to say the least of parcel of such duti
the warehouse in like manner any loss OF impartial Commities, who writes the report of such games employ A CHINESE coollo was foed Sig at the Magla... Vice and Deputy Consul-General of the United highly mafortunate on a supposedly strictly with ba entered.
The case is that the Royal Society is now on contraction occasioned by breaking down or | HEARING (bat no oil apsiu the very language that is used by the playersAcy this morning for throwing stones at an themselves by the spectators around the Indian watchman employed at the Empire We have it on very good authority, says in its defence and in justice to a position, the bottling shall be deducted from the stock to'la backyard pitch, and be fuels it only proper to describe Cinematograph.
Finland, that the Tronoh Mines bara come leading body of scientists in the world, must | of such dutíable liquor and be written off icom firm sant dos the game in the "lingo" belonging to it.
*THE Honourable Mr. Henry Keswick has been across a good place of land which la reliable | defend the recommendations which it laid be the stock books. The licance shall keep e find that the senda Thus Browskicka inn "daisy-winger
appointed an unofficial member of the Exsen" for open-cast. The overburden in about go fore the Board of Trade and are now separate account of all broken down liquors in dos to a leak
the most eminent ophthalmologiilt who baig ! tendant.” fa u stinger. One could go on multiplying Live Council daring the absence on leave of ¦¦feet and it is reported that prospecting re-discredited on all hands, more parculatly by a manner to be approred by the Superin: viciaty
sults indicato só cattias sa the cubla zord, 1 of the use of slang in whatever | the Honourable Sir Paul Chater, Xt, GMQ
TENDERS will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office for the erection of shops, stalls, &c, at the New Marko, Tsim Sha Tsui, Komicos.
His Excellency, be Officer Adralaistering the Government has been pleased to recogolie provisionally and pending the receipt of His
· Majesty's exequator, Mr. A. E. Culeton as States of America in Hongkong.
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