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TELEGRAPH
The Remington Portable
their present level
the
the
onlggings, are never sa high 19 they, are given on paper in the is the outstanding success Estimates? If the Government among portable typewriters toows beforehand that certain it supplies the highest works cannot possibly be carried typewriter efficiency within
out what grounds can there be the smallest possible space,
And the reason is-`
it's different
called for something new-
that the money
Registration.
ana hable to
JAUGUSINE
DAY BY DAY.
TO BE CONSCIOUS THAT YOU ARE IGNORANT 19 A GREAT STEP TO KNOWLEDGE—Beaconsfield..
Between Ourselves
By Robi. MacWhirter.
If anybody comes sarees an [ing some venomous things umbrella wi” a pear-horn bandib, on this subject, confident that Quarantine restrictions · im- 1'11 ba shliged to them if they'd "Im expressing the sentiments of posed by Bangkok against Send a coolie along wi' it to the hundreds who have lens books kong have been withdrawn.
Tekegropa office. True. it had 'and will never see hide-nor bair to vote sums therefor? It seems
soon better days but mac, I just of them again. But I think it to us that the Government is
It is notified that the name of fair hate to lose a thing. No, would be next door to useless. always erring on the cautious The China Leather Company, that my late gamp was a thing o' The book-borrower is so utterly side and is unduly optimistic in Limited, has been struck off the beauty, its centre pola being case-hardened that printers ink
Register.
slightly bant and letting in at is a mere waste of good material. The Remington Engineers its outlook. It votes large sams
the top, but the silver-band-on-He's the blighter that goes - from found that the problem of which cannot be used, in the
A Chinese youth 20 years of the handle was quite good yat. pouse to house, drinking your | building' a portable type-Chape
whiskies and rodas, accumulat- mayage, was injured in a fall from a My Good Old Gamp. writer of true Remington possibly be spent.
ing a large, if heterogenBOUR, - tree in the grounds of St. Stephen's. I nearly had a beadache for library at othaf folk's expense quality was not to be solved
College yesterday. He was taken about three days wondering and protected not only by an ex- to the Government Civil Hospital. where abouts I left it by following familiar lines
Mr.tremely shiok hide but by ▲ con- of construction. It demand-
Goodall swore, that the Cafe veniently bad memory. It is notified that the Govern- İsystem ó” returning left valuables What is the psychological ex- ed originality of conception,
One aspect of the draft Ordin-ment proposes to erect
of combined with inventive skill
■ public was perfect nowadays. So I justplanation this persistant ance
Amending the Colony's latrine haring its east side about had to take his word for it. Ong-failure of our lant volumes to of a high order. In short, it
registration arrangemen's merits 170 feet to the west of Kowloon way, I'd hate to get a chap the return to the fold? How at least a few lines of notice. The Inland Lat No. 635, Kowloon sack for the sake of an umbrella is it that a man perfectly and different.
main provision of the now mersure City Road.
Besides, yon Cafe's a respectable honest in the crdinary transao- And the Remington Port-is that in future it will be neces
place even if the public don't frions of life will not scruple to able is successful--because itsary for avery
The bodies of the Japanese rightly know who it belongs to rab you of your best books? You'l registestion to state any special seaman and a cook of a revenus and the band does practice at the get a chap who would not lift as is different.
qualification, so that the best use launch who were accidentally wrong time of day. That's the much as an advertising leaflet may be made of the individual's drowned in the harbour the other onto an umbrella, after it's from shop counter without pay- services in case of emergency. A day bars been recovered and lost; ye can never prove delivery.ing for it and who returns wi' his point to strike us in referenc to emoved to the Mortuary.
Te take it into a place and unless chest all puffed out every time the Ordinsace is that women are.
ya eat wit it between your knees. { ho's been given too much change, not subject to it. Presumably
ya way as well have given it yet in the most bare-faced way this is to be attributed to the
Suffering from the effects of an away to the blind beggar at the be'll pinch your literary trORKUTOR privilege of But will be immersion in the harbour result corner for all the chance you've without turning a hair or even fair sex welcome the immunity ing from an accidental fall over got a seeing it again. Miod ye, promising to bring them back. May they not rather resent it board from the steam launch 1 don't blame the Cafe. No. For all that we go oa lend-
a slight after the practical Feiving, a Chinese was removed you're got to be careful these ing evidence that woman has given of yesterday to the Government days for you never know her utility in periods of stress? Civil Hospital after first-aid was whether it'll be Lane, Crawford's, We had an example of this here applied.
or the Dairy Farm or maybe during the recent seamen's strike,
Powell's that'll be. Eling & suit particularly in connection with Notice is given that the Super-against ya for libel. All the same HONGTONG, 5th August, 1922. the running of the bakeries. At intendent of Customs and the I've lost my umbrelis and I was our books under the bed or lock- Home during the war girls fitted Treaty Power Consuls at Shang: sen taking it into the Cafe lasting them away at the bottom of themselves into sorts of bai have declared the port of waek and it's never teen seen oor kist. We might say that ther grooves that had been generally Amoy to be plagus-infected. All since. It means much of thing belong to somebody else bat regarded as peculiar to their vessels arising therefrom will be to look at; still it torced a shower these, at the best, are feeble brothera It is an indifferent governed by the Sanitary Regula-and aya saved me from buying suggestions. Equally feeble and answer to say that, if they are so tions for the port of Shanghai. another.
futile are such tricks as puiting anxious to kelp, women can offer
You're maybe heard the story your name or bookplate or versen their services irrespective of re- A report comes from an inmate of the man in the American gistration. To wait till trouble of No. 13 Gough Street that a cafeteria who, after he had lost comes is to invite confusion. A thief stole from a box by means raft o' gamps, attached a printed in the Draft Appropriation Ac-leading purpose of the Ordinance of a duplicate key a sum of card on his latest purchaas wi' count for the past year. This is to schedule all the availabis $217.70. A similar theft is also works to this effect:
hows that on an estimate of talent so that it can be made the reported by the tenant of No. 13. Cheung Sha Street, who says that $17,350,000, less than most of promptly.
he was victimized to the extent $15,740,000 was spent: On look-
of $206..
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STRANGE METHODS.
Hongkong's habit of budgetting for far more than is intends spending is admirably illustrated
some
ing through the various items we Wanted: Data. have been struck by the number
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This Umbrella belongs to The Heavy-Weight Cham- pion Boxer of the State. He is coming back for it
Your Umbrella
taken by The Champion Runner of the State. He í. not coming back..
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our best books well knowing that the chances sto about 20 10 1 against our ever seeing them again. We bavena' the nerve to say "No And yet we canna' start keeping
on the blessedness of honesty or the cursedness of theft inside your books. I strongly suspect. that borrowers of books collect. autographs and bookpistes za k side line. So what are we to do? Who can suggests remedy? Ooyhow, sad reader. I'v done my best for ye and so if during the next few days, I should. seems-ized parcels of books going Peakwards or truck-loads of them in Kowloon or the lower
levels, I abell know that s few
Tenders are being invited for
3000 A correspondent whose letter the monthly ocaupation of the of big works for which facacial wa published last evening takes pier situated opposite Jubilee provision was made but which some exception to our reading of Street, Hongkoog, subject to cer
That, thought be, will fix them, were not put in hand, Amongst the French attitude when we tain conditions which can be sand proceeded to feed in mental arrows have pierced the pachy- sa omented upon the War Debts certained at the Office of the comfort. Judge of his surprise dermis and that you are at long the undertakings against which; in Thursday's issue. Our remarks | Director of Public Works. Only The words "No: begun appear were based in particular upon a tenders above the upset fee of though, when on approaching the last coming into your own again. we notice the Hongkong Fire Rater message of July 29 re- $100 per month will be considered. atand he found bis umbrella gone Lending Libraries
the French proposal
od the following rude note Talking about books reminds Station, the Sayingpen School, Carding
that Britain cancel France's debts
The plot of land, situated at the cribbled on the back of his card. me that one o' Janet's flapper the road from Wanchai Gap to and abandon claims on Ger-junction of Cameroo and
|friends was telling ber the other Middle Gap, the sewer in new moy." this message probably Chatham Roads, Kowloon, on
aight about the Helena Hay Institute rounding up it's library. road above the Colonial Cemetery, being a sequel to the one mention which stands the building weed led by our correspondent. As be- & mess for the officers of the
Same old tale; continual losa. road improvement at East Pointween France and Germany we King Edward's Own Gradier.
of books: keeping them long Now and the proposed Police Station can sympathise with "A Read
over the allotted time. Regiment, has been d by
they're going to fine the members at Yumati.
(er's” views; an between France Messrs. Cooper & Co, of 18. and Britain the proposal, as we ob-D'Aguilar Street, to Mr. Howard,
five cents a day for each volums The projects named represent served the other day, has a one exchange broker, of 10, Ice House Kinda feeble, isn't it? I thought retained after it has been a total sum of close on 270,000, sited look. Oo the farther point Street. The price has not been you'd say that. In fact I warned fortnight from the fold. My
correspondent, disclosed.
Joe when he cracked it on me goodness, if I could get that of which not a cent was spent raised by our
everybody will agree with his
after hearing of my loss. Some amount of money per diem on all during the year. Then we havetand. It should be carefully in
Coronet audiences are thorough-folk are so darned sympathetic the books I've got out on loan all appearing in the Account with quired, he says, whether Germany ly enjoying "Peck's Bad Boy," that they'd spring one of these over the Colony it would pay me irritating frequency the explana. has done her atmost to keep her the delightful picture which fea-mildewed chestouts on the way better than working for a living. What's mostly wrong wit the tions "Less work than was anti-engagements, and if "a gigantic tures as the star artist young to your own funeral.
of evasion has been Jackie
FLML library, though, is that system
Coogan," the cipated" and "Work not com-created." as bas boen sugested, youngster
Petty Larceny.
the books never get a chance to. who fods himself
But truly, isn't it sucprious feel at home. Once out of the menced un late in the year," measures ought to be
famous at the tender age of six to say nothing of important pro accordingly. More than once as the result of bis phenomenally thing how a man will pinch your place, folk keep handing them
we have felsimpelled to comment successful appearance in "The without ever turning a hair and retaining
unbrella onybody's umbrella round to Bach other. thus posals with which it was decided upon the need of an authoritative Kid"
the best books with Charlie Chaplin. not to proceed. In this latter pronouncement concerning Ger-No one should miss this special in the least thinking that he is among the brightest brains. The connection it would be illuminatang's resources, and our co-attraction.
doing onything dishonest. Par scheme is economically sound too respondent's remarks emphasise
fectly good fellows.choke-full of by reason of the fact that the ing to know who decides that a
integrity and this need. By some accounts
money transportation of literature in on- |project be droppul after its bakermany has been enjoying
in the bank will steal your timely confined to the upper levels. appeared in the Estimates-and extraordinary prosperity; others
poor old gamp and never for one Naturally, those who do visit the moment look upon the act in the library are often disappoin ́ed. been approved by the Legislative declare the country to be upon
light of being likely to cause a Hence the growl. the brink of a collapse. Probably Council.
both versions are delusive, hence The returns of the
Average debit entry against their names For myself, I've no time for of bank notes is in the great book topside. Even lending libraries. I've always. The noteworthy point about the importance of an independent amount most of these unaccomplished and adequate inquiry. Bat, as circulation and of specie in ministers have been known to maintained that Andra Carnegie we have previously observed, reserve in Hongkong, during the borrow umbrellas. Some folk did more harm then onything and partially completed under-i
sup-month ended might have been
31st. July, figure that if some one stasis eine to. Scottish education sad takings is that they all come posed that the Reparations 1922, as certified by the Managers their's that they are perfectly en morals when he took to having tified to lift tha other fellow's libraries and kirk OfgaDa onder the heading of Public Commission, for instance, has by of the respective Banks are:
without rs much as by your leave, named after him. this time obtained fairly definite
Average Specio in Works in some form or other data. If it bas obtained such Backs.
A mount. Reserve If I had the son of a gun bera borrowed book is never read like Ibe fablt, of course, does not lie dats, the citizens of the Allied Chartered Bank of
beside me who walked away wi' the bought pus. The thing that mine I'd make his ears burn like costs us nothing is in the end, with the P.W.D. which is still nations have been left largely matter
£5,000,000* winter sun, that would L. It's generally worth it. The book we badly understaffed considering in the dark upon &
no' the intrinsic value of the thing buy, wa read, if only to get value that bothers but I just fair hate for our money, Buy a book* baving to keep on telling Janet week" is a good old motto. Think 550,0005 ibat I left it at the office. Unless of the money we wasty'in excern I get hold. o' someone booze sad puerile pictures when Total.....647.$38,045 21,550,000 else's soon, there's likely to we might be using it to provide
be trouble in our house. I wonder books for our friends to borro *Sterling Securities deposited if it would make ony difference in Ay, encourage literature and it'll the Government must well know decide to solve the exchange with the Crown Agents valued at the price if I went to Lane, Craw- encourage you. Besides, look st it cannot absorb. In some of problem on lides of its own. Not £628,000,
ford's and said that-well, now, I'll the good it does the printing trade. the instances there are explam so long ago the American dollar Securities with the Crown maybe have to be careful for, of stions given as to why less proof business transactions to be £1,800,000,
was computed for the purpose Agents and Straits Government course, I can prove nothing." The Our Girl's Home.
of vital concem.
e phenomenal developments which are taking, place in build.
ing and in improvement schemes. But we cannot see the utility of
voting big soms of money which
SOVIET'S SOLUTION OF
EXCHANGE PROBLEM. Apparently the Soviet bas
BANK RETURNS.
India, Australia. and China,...$3,711,515 Hoogkong And
Shanghai Back.
ing Corporation, $37,443,000 16,390,000+ I Mercantile Bank
of India, Limited. 3-1,251,5[0
-
1
The
only thing I can prove is that fat And when I'm on the subject gress WAR made than was work from 500,000 to 750,000 Securities with the Crown week I had a perfectly good gamp of the Halens May Institute, let anticipated; in most, nothing but roubles and other currencies Agents £130,000.
the bare statement appears. It accordingly. What has now bep-
pened is that the Soviet has
SHANGHAI'S NEW 0-0.
In a private letter received in
(barring a wee bole sear the top) me tell you that I wasna* « bift: but to-day I may as well never surprised to see you two letters. looks as if, to use a popular ex-decided to issue a new currency,
have had it for all the good it is in the Post regarding the man- to me now,
agement of the concern. What pression, the P.W.D. is asked to and according to the Rosts News
I'm surprised at, though, is that the powers that be have taken so bife more than it can chew: Is Agency has fixed the rate of ex- Shanghai Mr. Sidney Barton, Larceny By Trick. that fair to the Department? change as follows £1st-1,800 CM.G., states that he hopes to Another popular form of theft long to recover from the chock roubles; guld dollar 230 roubles, arrive about the middle of August is that of borrowing book and and/or that they havens -soon fli And, incidentally, is it right to franc-20 roubles; German mark to ssume the duties of Conent-forgetting to return it. 21. think
General
(Continued on Fore 7) keep various forms of taxation at —–88 köpeke.
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