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BETWEEN OURSELVES. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

(Continued from Page 6.5 As Applied to Telephones.

AGO.

A Glance at our Files.

11June 12-18, 1897.1

INDO-CHINA SN, CO.

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

PEKING NEWS.

Abolishing Tuchun System.

A Peking telegram states that] I'd go further and say that bo'

all the Tuchuus have telegraphed only la sickness amenable to will-

stating that they will support tha power. I believe the thing can

movament for the abolition of the be made applicable to business as

Tachun aystem, but they have well. What about leaning back

requested that their arrears of in your office chair, closing your

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & pay be made good before the eyes, sad twice twenty times a Co. General Managers of theļabolition takes place. day saying "Day by day, in Indo-China Steam Navigation Another Peking message saya every respect, par telephone ser-Company, Ltd, courteously in-the Cabinet has decided that a rice is getting better and batter."form us that they have received mandate be issued ordering the I'm sure if everybody did that, ita telegram, dated London 11th cessation of fighting all over the would help lots and do away wi' June, reading as follows:-"Geo-country as the first step towards the necessity of Mr. Bannatt eral meeting of shareholders will the abolition of the Tuchon iasuing weakly bulletins about take place on the 17th June system and the reduction of the efficiency of his word-carrying Report for last year forwarded troops. system. Even if it didna do the by to-day's mail. No dividend telephones any good it would be will be declared. We are bring Fengtien Troops Bombarded. much better for your health than ing forward £1,400. Balance at Peking. June 16-After a lull having to take a bite periodically credit of underwriting account, af 36 hours, the Chibli forces out of the desk or sacking the £90,000. Exchange reserve.heavily bombarded the Fengtien office boy twice a week.

23,900,"

troops with guns yesterday after- And Presidents or Yaks.

noon from the left flank, where ibe former are now strongly in A London message says:-The position. The Chibli forces out- Duke of Connaught reviewed 500 number the Fangtien, and Chin- of the Colonial Contingent quar-ese and foreign reports in icate tered at Chelsen barracks. Athe early defeat of the latter dozen different colonies were unless they retire-Reuter represented, including Hongkong, and the Straits settlements.

Ob, there's no end to the good this sort of thing may do. Just Jou imagine what would bare happened if Sun Yat-sen bad adopted the idea. "Day by day in every respect, as a President, I'm getting better and better." I know it would have helped lots more if Chan King-ming had real-

THE DIAMOND JUBILEE

GENEROUS HONGKONG. This is what the Tenisin

ly make up his mindearlier what says about the liberality of he was going to do but all the same there's no saying what the Coua Hongkong residents-There is a

The

DAY BY DAY.

Yesterday's health return

of

treatment tight do in the remark of contrast in the Diamond shows two non-fatal cases unification of China once that Jubilee subscription lists for plague (Chinese), one fatal occur sort of thing got a proper start. Shanghai and Hongkong.

Of course the formula predna residents in the Model Settle-and one non-fatal case of small- rence of enteric fever (Chinese) be closely adhered to. Everyone ment fear they may base to cure pox (British). would just repeat what beat met tail their programme from lack of the case. Naturally, even in the financial support; the Crown Col- mlad of the most sincere. the onies, on the other hand, have result couldna' always be ex-

come Out very strong. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

took to

ra.

my

CHINA'S MEDICOS.

The order of the Ministry of the Interior that all Chinese medical

pected to is the intentionD. For instance, if the Head of the heads the list with a subscription practitioners, except those with Sanitary Board

of $2,500, the Princely. House foreign training, should be com peating "Day by day

comes next with $1.500, then palled to register, has caused buffaloes look more and more like came thirteen subscriptions a much heartburning. Jaks" ye couldns' expect ony-$1,000, fourteen at $500 or more, the Yangtstepoo district (Sheng- Those in thing of the kind to happen even to

Their fund stood at hai) are forming a society to

etc. etc,

please a newspaper. Or if a man. $33.000 few days after it was oppose such registration, while

wi' a brain the siza o'

medium-opened.

Das very interesting protests from other quarters are sized pea chanted the formula feature of the list is the generous rife.

"Day by day I'm getting clevereray in which the foreign bongs.

and clevere: he'd wait a terrible most especially those of the|-

long time before a wondering Fatherland, have responded to the

world put up a statue of him. Quite so, and when ouring and to the Colonial Office if

No, the new treatment is simple bat no quite so simpla tha:.

Work the Healer..

25

Foo-

contemporary learns what the requested to do so, but so far as Chinese have subscribed we may Bay effective support of interven- expect to hear something more tion on his part is concerned it is about the loosening of parse not to be expected. Nothing but; strings in the Isle of Fragrant & sharp and strong remonstrance Screams.

addressed by the Community as a whole to the Queen herself and to NEW FILTER BEDS. the people of England represent- The three filter beds being made ing our whole case against the and above the Powder Magazine Authorities, the Treasury sad the on the hillside below Bowen Road War Department the Naval will have a capacity of 1,000,000 Colonial Office, and the manner allons per diem, and the covered in which the Colony is treated service reservoir will hold 600,000 on all hand: by the irresponsible

cast iron main will coonset this permanent

officials of distribution service reservoir with the existing Departments. will hare any service reservoir at Wanchai. On Colony, with all its wealth and

system and the chance of being listened to.

the patchwater reservoir near intelligence. is worse treated work is than the smallest village in the corner of Eng-

these

The

Mind re I do believe that lots o' mental ills would vanish bai fore determined optimism but I draw the line at believing that varicose veins, consumption and eating diabetes will succumb to this magic site. If such a thing is possible, then all our ills are more or less imaginary and several doctors At the present ment owe me a lot o' good money which they took from me under false pretences. I believe instead that there's nothing like poverty Wongneichong Gap and hard work for keeping you teadily progressing. The catch-most remote well. It's age when we've got water is to discharge into the land, and as little thought of ower much time on our hands that we proceed to

reservoir, from which the water It is ia an inferior posi. wandering pain to its source.main 3 in. in diameter to the insignificant black settlement in will be conveyed by a cast iron tion in every respect to the most How many times of a morning Tytam conduit. To the west of the West Indies. It is pure. have wo felt like a chewed string which only requir

pizce of the Tytam Valley another catch-unadulterated Cown Colony.

trace the

ed the sight of a deskful of work water is also being constructed. administered solely for the

to dissipate? It's are when we've nothing to do that our aches and pains. feel

worse.

MAY RAINFALL.

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HONGKONG CLUB PREMISES.

benefit of the Home Government

as completely and entirely as if

far

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1923,

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FLASHES FROM THE STATES.

As we understand it, the prin- cipal charge against Prohibition is that it makes it so difficult to get anything to drink.—Zanesville Times-Recunder

it were a Portuguese or Spanish | That's box our toothache anda change of ownership in the old plundered as remorselessly as There has lately been effected possession, and its Treasury is More finger feel so bad daring the Hongkong Club premises, Messrs. the Treasury at Macao. It has night. Under excitement many J. D. Humphreys and Son having the a man has been unaware of even purchased the building for $12,- Gaverament. It has none of the forms of representative severe injury. So undoubtedly 600. The premises were sold to realities. Honduras has far more the mind plays an important the French mission in 1893 for freedom. The old constitutional part in matters physical. On the $105,000, when it was decided to rule, other hand in this matter of erect a new Club house on the representation

"No taxation without curative paycholoy one cannot Praya Reclamation, the condition aside and disregarded as

is utterly set Avoid detecting an atmosphere of sale being that the Club should as of farce but since the raind can hold possession until the new English parish has its Parish little more co-operation between we are concerned. Every AR the pedestrians sak is & create discase it is surely reason premises were completed. It is Council: every county and town horse-power and horse sense.~

In India it's propagandhi.- able to assume that by the mind said that the object of the pur-its town or Municipal Council. Detroit Free Pres

| Dallas News, disease may be cured. So let's chase is the establishment of a It raises its

Imitate the rich man as he was get busy. Who's for knotting new English Club, but nothing disburses them

awn funds and

Dante lived too early. Think before be became rich, and then string?

as it pleases. of the price he might have re.you may venture to imitate him definite is yet raade public. The Within definite limits it is free ceived for the motion pictures he is now.-Wichita Eagle, transfer to the new Club premises Elere we are taxed and the money rights-Warren Chronicle,

That reformer who says all will probably take place at ao raised is expended not merly Automobiles wouldn't be danceandal should be made public early date.

without the consent of the in-gerous if the horse-power of the probably doesn't know the pres AN OLD STORY.

habitants but against their wishes, engine was proportioned to the ent price of print paper-New The memorial now in course of managed by the local Councils Star.

and protests. We are not even horse sense of the driver,--Marion

York Evening Telegram, signature for presentation to His and officials, such as they are,

It's a little late, but it occurs Excellency the Governor in con- They are section with the purchase by the Street and mainly by some Per-saved money by giving the from Downing to us that the nations might have) Hongkong Observatory returns Military Authorities of the Mount manent Official whom no one soldiers & bonus not to fight-are the most perfect double focus how that the total rainfall during Austin Hotel is a very clear and knows. The Naval and Military Steubenville Herald Ster. May yes 5.49 inches, compared a very moderate statement of the authorities have been for years)

glasses for both reading and with an average of 11.60 inches case and of the Peak residents, in possession of the best land mystery to him how he does it lens, the segment or part forread- A popular song writer says it is distant. In the ordinary bifocal for the period 1884-1918:-

and its prayers that the Governor in the Colony in The rainfall at the Observatory would interpose his good offices middle of the city, imped- explanation. Ignorance of the lens, raising the segment above the very Bat we cannot accept that as ading is cemented to the distant) was only 47 per cent of the and obtain for the Community ing the normal. It has been less than from the War Department apering its commerce. In addition Pioneer Press,

growth and ham-low is no excuse. St. Paul the surface of the main lens. The this on seven occasions since 1884, month'e time within which to to what they actually occupy they

segment and the line of union ard on one of which, in 1887, the submit proposals for the repur prevent for divers reasons, the where, however, if the knob at the Kryptok Jeni, no cement is used, Backbone won't get you any-always moreof less noticeable. In drought in May was followed by a chase, of the Mount Austin Hotel, use and occupation of far more, top of it is made of the same but the reading segment is elec drouzht in June. On three occs if by any possibility the Military They pay neither rent nor taxes material-Muskogee Phoeniz. sions.it was followed by a slight Authorities would re-sell it, is a for this land, neither for whai After close observation we con- the main lens, while the whole trically-fused in a depression in "defect of rainfall in June and on very mild request indeed. Clear they occupy nor for what they clude that the minimum on which lens is ground smooth on both three occasions it was followed by as is the statement and strong as compel us to forego the use of a family of five can live is the sides to the desired focus. Eryptok];

excess of rainfall in is the case made by it, we fear Other sites in the Colony equally sum provider happens to earn lenses of any prescription in Jane.

very much that the presentation available for naval and military Mansfield News, The returns further show that of the memorial to the Governor purposes, in some respecta far

either regular or Taris form are there were 175 8 boure of sunshine will be resultless. His Ex-better, are at their disposal; but, help enforce the Volstead Act Optiont Co, rüccessors to Clark If Bar Navy is to be used to manufactured by The Hongkong during May, whilst the average cellency will, of course, mean temperature was 78.6 and sent to forward the document sider them. They will take look for any great reduction of Specialism, located in 52, Queen's con-no, they won't look at or con against muggling, we needn't & - Oo, Dvtical, Prescription the humidity 85.

to the Major-Ceneral Command-addition but not in substitution. naval armament-Brooklyn Eagle, Road Central

Only 47 Per Cent. of Normal.

run

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