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ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY

BY

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THE MANAGEMENT

--OF THE

VICTORIA THEATRE.

THE MANAGEMENT OF

VICTORIA THEATRE

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HAVE

MUCH PLEASURE IN INFORMING

THEIR PATRONS AND THE GENER-

AL PUBLIC

THA". COMMENCING

FROM NEW YEAR NIGHT. THE BAND OF TLE WILTSHIRE REUI-

MENT WILL PERFORM NIGHTLY.

THE VICTORIA THEATRE.

THER WILL BE TWO CHANGES

TaE MUSICAL

AT

OF

THE

PROGRAMM

REGIMENTAL STRING

BAND

-

TJ PLAY FOR FJUR NIGHTS

WEEKLY

AND THE REGIMENTAL

BRASS TUREE

TIMES A WEEK.

THE BAND WILL PLAY AS WELL ON

WEDNESDAYS

MATIVEES.

& SATURDAYS

AT

THE VICTORIA THEATRÈ

ORC SIRA WILL BE IN ATTEN- DANCE ONLY AT THE MATINEE PER- FORMANCES, EXCEPT WEDNESDAYS.

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PRICES OF ADMISSION WILL CON- TINUE THE SAME, AND PICTURE PRO- GRAMMES OF HIGn-WATER MARK

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WILL IN FUTURE BE PRESENTED.

.OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

POCKETS & PERSONALITY.

HIDING PLACES OF TREASURES AND TRAGEDIES.

Some people say that you can judge people's characters by what they read in trains; others find, their index in bands, in boots and how they are worn, in the shape of the nose or the style of wearing the bair.

It seems to me, says a writer to a Home paper, that the best qutward indication of a man's personality is in his pockets. Get your neighbour to turn out his pockets before you, and you will learn much.

Pockets reached their highest. development during the War. Barbusse, in his chapter on Le Barda, devotes quite a number of pages to the importance to the poilu and his pockets.

When I first went to France I was put to a job that involved the turning out of wounded soldiers' pockets, that their contents might be carefully preserved.

In the breast pocket of the veston there was generally the most sacred treasure of all-the family photographs and the last letters from home, together with the livret militaire, the French soldier's official dossier and identity book all in one."

Some men sewed their letters and money into the linings of their coats, and many had a collection of saints' medals- Souvenirs and porte-bonheur's from their womenfolk, often re- garded as mascots-sewn safety-pinned inside the pocket of the shirt.

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T Shanghai. T/T Singapore. T/T Japan T/T India.. Demand, India

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1920.

EXCHANGE.

SELLING.

T/T Demand 30 dis 60 d/s

4 m/s

4/1016

4/1094

4/1036

4/11

4/1136

Nom

207

184

207

207

94

247

Nem.

9 85

BUYING..

4 m/s. L/C 4 m/s. D/P

51-16

5/-3/4

6 m/s, L/C

5/14

30 d/s. Sydney and

Melboumef

514

30d/s. San Francis

954

S'ATIONARY → VICTORY

Nom.

OIL E GINE

10.25

/ San Francisco

& New York./ Java T/T Marks T/T Francs Demand, Paris

10.37

co & New York / 4 m/s. Marks 4 m/s. Francs 6 m/s. Francs. Demand. New York 941 Demand. Germany -

T/T Bombay

..... 207 Demand. Bombay... T/T Calcutta

207 Demand, Calcutta... Demand, Manila 19456 Demand, Singapore. 207 On Haiphong On Saigon

On Bangkok Sovereign...

Nom.

Nom.

Nom.

4.05 Nom.

Gold leaf per Tael... 32.20 Bar Silver, per oz

forward

SUBSIDIARY COINS

NOTICES.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS DIRECT

CONNECTED OR BELT DRIVEN

Sole Agents for Manufacturers. Stock Carried.

UNION ENGINEERING CO., LTD,

13 CHATER

ROAD,

YFAR WITI

LADIES' BOOTS!

NEW

BO IS

THE SEASON'S BARGAIN

-SINCERE'S

BEGIN THE

A PAIR OF

par.

17

10

5

$2 pm.

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One never dared to t row away a shirt, however filthy or blood- stained, without examining the pocket or the hemmed opening for medals thus secured from DISCOUNT PER $100: prying eyes. Once a young poilu,kong 50 ct pieces when he left the hospital, ruthlessly went through the pocket treasury I had saved Canton coins for him, and flung away a safety- pin with two of these medals strung on it-No, he did not want them, useless things! he said. with a mocking laugh. When his defiant young back was turned, I rescued them, with some letters which he had not troubled to tear up. and kept them sentimentally for the wegian's sake who had sent them to him. I have them still, some- where. So many tragedies, stuffed away in these men's pockets!

I think you will recognise the oli campaigner in the days to come by the extent and arrange ment of his pockets, always have the right thing He will

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hands, at the crucial moment, whether it is a case of opening a refractory, tin (if it is an old hos

BREVITIES.

In Rumania when a man dies there must be placed in his coffin a comb, a bit of soap and a coin ferry him over the River Styx. to pay the fee due Charon, to

Cups and saucers are not used for tea in Russia. The fashion- able drinking vessel for tea is the 'stakan, a glass.tumbler in a silver holder.

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All the sv &"'ow, tr be are found in every part of Great Britaia,, including the Shetlands, except

are required to speak English, Telephone operators in Egypt

French, Italian, Greek and Arabie, ! A trout egg takes from 35 to 60 days to hatch, according to the temperature of the water.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNÉES.

Woman assistants are emplog-BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

throughout Great Britain. ed in nearly all the barber shopa

Maids of hencur at the Englis!

HE Steamship

in which he not found in court must not keep a diary, and TB

those islands.

from the land into the ocean, in The amount of material carried

been estimated at 3.7 cubic miles

it is usual to exact a pledge to this effect on their appointment,

A whale is not a fish. It looks

"BENLAWERS."

pital worker, male or female the suspension and in solution, has like a fish because it has to live From ANTWERP MIDDLESRO,

article will certainly be a pair of

sprung"

artery forceps) repairing anything from a watch

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a year.

to a bicycle and it will sue spruce forests where THE

In making a survey of the airplane

THE

MANAGEMENT THEATRE LAKE THIS ‹ PPORTUNITY OF WISHIN... ONE & ALL OF THI PARO SA PRO PEROUS ALW YEAR.

THE

VICTORIA

THEATRE

HAS SOLV D THE QUESTION OF A' PUBLIC BAND FOR T. E CITIZENS OF HONGKONG,

EVICTORIA

FOR COMFORT & ENJOYMENT.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

from a pocket on his person, from its special and habituel pocket,

The tailor and dressmaker who first learn to combine adequate storage facilities in the way of pockets with smart elegant appearance will reap a harvest from our men and women

cutting was carried on dur- ing the war in the Grays Harbour spruce district, a tree 573 years

old was found.

in the water, but it belongs with the mammals like the cow u horse,

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

TOYO KISEN KAISHA

1

S.S. "KIYO MARI,"

From SOUTH AMERICAN- PORTS via SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS

The LONDON & STRAITS.

above named Steamer having arrived Monday CONSIGNEES of Cargo are December, 29th. hereby informed that all Goods: Chili claims that the Island of are being landed at their risk into Consignees of cargo are hereb Chilo off its west coast is the orig-the hazardous and/or extra hazar.notified to present their Bills inal home of the potato and that lous Godowns of the Hongkong Lading for countersignature, and it has been cultivated there since and Kowloon Wharf and Go take immediate delivery from downs Co., Ltd., whence and/or alongside steamer or the Com Switzerland has no coal of her from the wharves delivery may be pany's Godown, where all co own, and co: even any peat or lig-obrained.

impeding immediate discharg nite. The Swiss burn wood, and electric power procured from downs, and all Goods remaining drive most of their factories by after the Goods have left the Go-

No claims will be admitted will be landed at consignees ri

undelivered after the 3rd Jan will be subject to rent.

A substitute for imported ed. carly in the fifteenth century. cat and

serwood in the Philippines. ible gelatine is being made from a

during these days of sumptuary authority get married sooner than Dark-haired people so says an

freconstruction.

fair-haired individuals.

: waterfalls.

At six months a baby walrus will eat 50 pounds of codfish a day.

China has coal deposits as great as those of the United States, yet is still importing coal from Japan.

PROMISE KEPT APTER 20 YEARS. The Rev. Moffat Gautrey, head of the East Haro Wesleyan Mission, preached at the Mayoral Service at St. Helen's, Lan- cashire, in fulfilment of a promise Woman is a subject never men. made 20 years ago. When a tioned in Morocco. It would be a Fong minister he laughingly terrible breach of etiquette to ask promised the present Mayor of a man after his wife or wives, St. Helen's, who was then user- The natives of the Andaman ing public life, that if he should islands average three feet eleven ever reach the position of Mayor inches in height and weigh under he would preach at the first 70 pounds. church service he officially A single orange tree will pro- attended. Much to his suprise duce 20,000 oranges, while a

a few days ago, he received lemon tree seldom produces more reminder of the promise.

than 8000 lemons..

Freckles seems to use the reformed spelling!

The reason why many deaf per- sons hear better while riding on trains is because the rumbling of the heavy wheels on the track

cau es the drum of the ear to vibrate, and in this way increases the capacity to hear.

cargo remaining undelivered afte Storage will be assessed Monday, January, 5th 1920,

must be presented to the Ender packages will be landed into the All claims against the steamer All broken, chafed and damaged, signed on or before the 10th Jan.. Company's Godowns, where same or they will not be recognized. will be examined on Monday aged Goods are to be left in the

All broken, chafed, and dam-January 5th, 1920 at 10 AM Godowns, where they will be examined on the 3rd Jan., at 10 No Fire Insurance has been Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by

The richest 100 square miles of territory in the world, so far as known to mining engineers, is in 8.M. the Black Hill. This district pro-affected. duces.working quantities of near- ly every mineral product, from gold to cement.

An electrical station with a 90- mile transmission to Melbourne is to be erected in the brown coal fields of Australia.

GIBB, L'VINGSTON & CO.,

Agents.

No Claims will be recognised after the goods have left t steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented later than three weeks after arrival steamer.

No Fire Insurance whatevs will be effected.

T. DAIGO

Manager

Hoagy on;, 27th December, 1919. Hongkong, 29th December, 191

BY BLOSS ER

THE MERCURY GARAGE OL

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POD, HOW DO

H-I-G-H!

YOU SPELL

HIGH?

THANK YA POP!

WHY DO YOU WANT TO KAION HOW TO SPELL

"HIGH?

'CAUSE I'M WRITIN"

A COMPOSITION ON

TH HIGIENA!

AT YOUR SERVICE

QUALITY

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