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MARRIAGE.

MONDAY.

AUGUST 1. 1922)

DAY BY DAY. “

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the arrival of the

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the "Hoogong

Telegraph.")"

Return of the Germans.

J

BISHOP OF VICTORIA.

Visiting Outlying Districts.

can hardly say there are no themes, but they are the mas which the public would ratbar

THERE IS A HAPPINESS SHORT, give a rest on Bank Holiday the

DON'T LOSE ANY. ADE, better to attend to them after the

The Bishop of the dioc ass welt- little break for recreation.

Thirty-seven Chinese were

ing from Pakhoi on July 6th. says ——"I have had an interest- That scribe who selected handed over to the custody of the

Sir. Quite recently. I read in ing and busy time here. On June Water Police on a charge of being Hongkorg papers that the barrage 25th, confirmation at Lian Chow; Nothing for his subject wAS A stowaways aboard the a Promexcluding the late Bun, but to a July 2nd, confirmation here. wily bird. The title suggesis an finent impossible undertaking when it vessel in port during the week was about to be withdrawn and lady of 16 who had learnt her.

day courteously called German, There was one dear old löpar his advent may be expected. The catechism right through among is one of the easiest of journalistio (end.

writer of the article was fully the leper candidates. There are feats. (Mr. Hilaire Belloe's

A latter received by a residentalive to the obnoxiousness of the 4 boys, and 5 girls, all under 15, volunie of essays was specially from Macao states that the prosaid advent, since so many res among the lepers. Two of the remarked because one of them pristor of the Nam Hing prori-idebts have had experience of boys are such jolly little chaps bora this heading). With a slon stars and his son were badly Frits "orer Tonder: but he twins, and nos of them is deaf injured by the bomb thrown into went on to say that enmity can and dumb, bat the other more specified subjac:, the writer is their shop on Thursday last. The not continae indefinitely, and it than makes up for his brother. tied; "Nothing" is capable of son has sincə died.

behoved us to bury the batchet Then there is a young fellow of unlimited fruitfulness. Already

for the sake of the world's pro-21 who was at college when we hear the printer-calling to us

At a meeting at the Ming Yuen gress.

leprosy overtook him. He speaks Gardens yesterday one thousand to halt, or no can makee fit.”

That theory is possible since in English excellently." The Bishop labanzers were enrolled, into ·

German CAD beļis now at Yunnanfu where hà new labour orgarisation named business the

kept at tha other end of was to take another confirmation. the Heungshan Labour As-

1 mail route,

or telegraph-Church Notes, sociation. It includes only

of the Heungshan phone, the next street, or house, and his communication would be sterilised by the business about to

Stricken Swatow.

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be done. That is one aspect, but TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

What about

Judging by the terrible naives calamity which has befallen district, Swatow, Hongkong had a narrow

The World Theatre is showing there is another. escape from the typhoon signall-

a very exceptional ed here on Wednesday. The ac-to-morrow counts show it to have been the picture which deals with a West- the British ship-officer becoming

What have we done to deserva worst disaster of its kind which ero girl who thought she could boxed up in any ship with a

German? Now. most of us that so good a cricketer as Siz Swatow has ever suffered; indeed, faol a Ranch gang by ber disguise Britishers sailing on the Coast Conan Doyle should advocate an

it would seem to have been a 45 a

a

of

man. The famous star,

two

charges of

involving

REED-SORBY.-At Amoy on August 5tb. 1972 at the British Consulate and afterwards at the ing to Union hurch, Henry Gladstone | siz feet of 息 low-lying granted, bat) being fixed at $150. Reed to Margaret Dare Sorby. native city. What that means

may well be left to the imagina tion. The coal damage date to

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 7th August, 1922.

ON NOTHING.

It is recorded of a

writer in the

Od

and other necessities. Acts such as that reveal a feeling of friend. ship and sympathy which could be expressed in no better or more acceptable form.

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my actions. I was mad drunk.

The Superintendent of the Seamen's Institute said that de- fendant had been living there. He was introduced into the place by another resident.

His Worship-It is simply &

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Coastal Marine, for will do: he

Yours etc.

FEELINGS.

Hongkong. Aug 7,923.

BIG SNAKE.

Killed at Kowloon City.

pastoral poems

Thou art no nun, veiled had.

vowed; doomed to nourish a withering pallor,

City exotics beside thee would show like bleached linen at midday.

Hung upon helgen of eglantine. And elsewhere, of an unknown but unforgotten passer-by who pleased him he paints the swift portrait:

A gracious freckled lady, tall and grave.

The recent taking over by the

more terrible visitation than the Bessie Barriscale, leads the role in have had sons, brothers, nephews, invasion of our schools by base- Far East has ever experienced "Two-gun Betty," a fine produc- or cousins sacrificed in the late ball missionaries? anks & Hours war and now are threatened with paper. American reports credit before. What damage a typhoon tion from Robert Branton.

the Hun becoming our shipmate him with expressing the hope can do has been grimly shown

where be must be spoken with, that efforts would be made to by the plight in which the neigh- Ng Man-kwong a salesman of eaten with, slept with-save for popularise the game in England, bouring port finds itself to-day-the Wing On stores, was charged the intervention of an inch-thick and to this he suggested like ruined Ypres, to use the de- before Mr. E W. Hamilton this bulkhead, or partition and gen- that two good teams should scripition of one eye-witness. morning on

erally treated courteously. Think tour the English colleges. This Apart from the actual demolition embezzlement, caused by the galas, there are spectively the sums of $4.40 and of it. But can it be honestly follows hard on the heels of the performed sad the good going of news that couple of "big the additional hardships and $4. Mr. H.B.L. Decoys, appear

baseball clubs miseries resulting from the flooding for the prosecution, asked for the ship maintained? I doubt professionat

Fit, and there

the propose to visit not only England height some a remand for a week, which was only remeds of refusing to but the Continant and giva ex- sail with such, bot since bibition matches. Most week. that would meso starvation, only ends you can see American sides "MAD DRUNK,”

hapelessness looms ahead unless compating in an "International a pure philanthropist takes the League" on the Chelsea football property on land and to shipping American Seaman Fined.

matter up in our behalf. Of ground. must be almost beyond computa

The "freckles competition" tion, to say nothing of the tre- Edward Sharman was charged core, the German, will come mendons death roll left in the before M. R. E. Lindsell, this either-Dane, Swede, Norwegian: newspaper would have pleased

creeping in under the guise of,

now being held in en American wake of this awful storm. Hongmorning, with riotous and dis- or maybap As a Hollander, kong's sympathy goes out to the arderly conduct whilst under the Belge, or Russ: for he can ape all George Meredith. In one of his be urges the people of Swatow at this time. influence of drink in the Seamen's six nations with esse; but then We bare known from experience Institute at the Praya East and again, what is to stop him from beauty of sunburn upon the com- what these dreadful visitations with damaging a picture which boldly asserting his true nationsl-panion of a walk, saying: leader-mean, and we can consequently the afterwards threw into the ity and acquiring a footing in the

feel all the more keenly for barbour. Country our distressed neighbour. It The defendant pleaded guilty soon be our brother? Alas, alas. that, one day about this time ofis comforting to feel that and his Warship asked:-Are the year, he found himself in the suthorities *here only you a British subject?

Defendant-No. I 2.31 ZN fix for a subject. Londoa had needed to be acquainted of the

distress of the people of the American citizen. entered upon the quiet seasornicken port when they im.

Why did you abuse the That portion of Society which is mediately resolved to send up a hospitality of a foreign place?- distinguished by a capital S had relief ship with supplies of food Wby. I was not responsible for quitted the matropijs for the delights of the ancestral mansion in the country; Parliament had been prorogued: the Courts had just risen for the Long Vacation : A Fishing Story, (nobody had killed anybody under Piscatory narratives are usual-case of getting badly drunk? peculiarly atrocious - circum-ly regarded as syconymous with The Superintendent-Yes.

Defendant said he had been stances; no ingenious disciple of fabrication. Here is a big but

It appears that the reptile wa straightforward-looking one, re- here two months. He was look- the Sikes cult bal rifled 1sted by Capt. R. C. Coppock, of ing out for a berth, and the on a forazing expedition into the burglar-proof safe; nobody had Appledore, North Devon, master American Consul-General had old Cits fort, and was returning on board to its hiding place in the garden of broken the bank at Monte Carlo: mariner. in describing his ex-promised hire one

He the Police Station when next Wednesday. p-riences at sea. The date vessel in short, there was nothing doing carries, back to 1894, when the asked leniency from the Court, discovered by the cook. Its whole acompleted at his death in 1605 Perhaps, in the middle of the raconteur was homeward-bound as he hated very much to lose length, with the exception of lice under the charge of compit- dog-days, the journalist's brain from Java in the Glanelvan, this opportunity of returning to twelve inches of the tail, bad city in the Gunpowder Plot. It

actually gone into the bole

haa never been finished, and felt more jaded than usual. Then Captain Kerr master. The crew the States.

the Cook decided to caught & shark. That is big

The Magistrate--You pay $5 before

stands to-day as ́Tresham's build. "on grimly to an idea struck him-he would game, but has nothing of the to the Government as a fine, and bold

the eud. His

ers left it, shell of a building, calls for write a leader upon "Nothing." surprising, still less of the in-

compensation to the visible A somewhat similar dilemma On ripping open the monster, sou damaged.

credible, being a commonplace. Seaman's Institute for the picture assistance brought lukong No. 208 Cruciform in shape-both in on the scene, and the combined this and in two other Northamp

tonshire bouses which be, confronts us

efforts of the two at length at the moment. however, the

"Drank himself silly." anglers were

designed, Tresham introduced & Ed. Kenneds, unemployed sea-resulted in the snake being religious symbolism-and wholly Reuter has been fairly active of amazed to find, intact, a news-

also charged with gradually pulled out from the rootless.. Though the New Bield tate, it is true; but most of the Paper addressed to Capt. Kerr man, was

aforesaid. The explanation, as being druck and incapable at the hole until only the neck and head has never been lived in, its archi- subjects have become tediously it transpired, was simple. Just Praza East on Saturday night. remained concealed. familiar Reparations, war debts.reviously, on leaving Java, the Kennedy pleaded guilty, admit- sharp stroke of a chopper, the tectural features, including its beautiful symbolistic decorations, have been wonderfully preserved. danger to the German Republic, steward had thrown overboard ting that be bad had a drop too snake was dispatched.

This is the second snake caught In the Civil Wars, it is true, a the Irish conflict, the

Major Butler made a desperate Eastern conflict, education of was that the package was com defendant had been two nights in the previous occasion one of these attempt to destroy if, but the Chinese students-these bave ei- paratively valueless. And a the police cell.

reptiles, which had got out of the toughness of the cement that letter with a thousand-pound Defendant am due to gol garden of the Police Station, was binds together the stones happily ther been worn threadbare, or are bank note been tossed away, per-back to the States in a couple of discovered on the roof of the defeated the design, and the van awaiting definite developments. baps the denizen of the deep would days. I would appreciate very Kwan On contractor's matsbed, dalistic Major bad to be satisfied An item in Saturday's cables have turned his nose up at it. much if you cangive me a chance. where it was killed.

with carrying away a few stout osken beams to the house he was catches the eye. "The Status of)

building at Oundle. Tangier," about which, it ap- pears, a conference is to be bold

The Magistrate ---You can go, in London; bat it is more than has been taken locally in the again.

A very great deal of interest but don't drink yourself silly

little difficult to summon up speech, culled by us from the Defendant:-Thank you.

the Barbary Japan Chronice, in which Mr. James Smyth, another defea- States, even though the Agadir Denby, U. S. Secretary of Navy, dant to a similar charge, failed to is said to have accused the ship-appear when his case was called. incident precursor of the great ping companies of foreign nations His bail of $10 was accordingly war, happened somewhere there. other than Japan, of rough-bandi-confiscated. Besides, the world is getting ing American cargo with the CALL TO CHINA'S CITIZENS. rather fed up with conferences. intention of prejudicing Ameri-

Jean goods in the markets of the Commenting upon the now

enthusiasm

One of the largest snakes seen for some time past in the Colony was killed by the police at Kow-National Trust of the New Bield, toon City last week. It measured Lyreden, will make more acces sible to tourists this summer one 12 feet 6 inces.

of the most interesting and romantic of Northamptonshire's county bounce. Built by Sir Thomas Tresham at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it was

With

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sundry newspapers that the "old much. Near man" had not opened. The pity Inspector Blackman stated that in this district within a year. On

C. 5. NAVAL SECRETARY'S

SPEECH.

I will promise you I will noti drink another drop whilst I am in this port.

HARBOUR COLLISION.

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while in prison with other Catio-

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Resembling awarras of been, half a million salmon fry have Man-o'-war and Junk. been removed from their hastab- ing nursery and cast into the A collison in the harbour, rapid water of the River Spey." shortly before mid-day yesterday, Much care is exercised in this between B.M.S. Magnolia and a delicate bit of work: An important large junk loaded with bricks, point in that the temperature resulted in the latter craft going of the river must be similar to to the bottom.

the water in the tanks where The crew of the junk numbered the ssimon were born and spent If we consider affairs nearer the world. Members of the party fashionable attitude that every seven, all of whom were for their babybood period. Expert Colony, things are in like: case aboard the U. S. transport Hend- thing is going to be quite all tunately saved by two launches fishermen are not inclined, to as Parliament and a sampan in the vicinity. believe that the depositing of which Mr. Denby is right as 8000 Son and Chan are still at daggers erson, on

The accident occurred right in fry has increased the yield and making bis present trip, are meets, the Peking Daily News drawn, bat there is nothing more understood to deny that these says It can never be too strongly the track of the Hongkong-¡quality of salmon in this noted. that ca, be profitably said just allegations were ever made by emphasized that the main task Kowloon ferries. It is reported river. The Duke of Richmond Gorden established and now. As to the typhoon at Mr. Denby, and it is understood confronting the advocates and that the junk crossed the bows of and

that steps

will be taken to supporters of responsible govern. the Maguolis shortly after the maintained batcheries at con- Swatow, one feels no inclination ascertain the facts of the case ment in China is that of evolving warship had left her buoy on her siderable expense.

This year to dwell upon that appalling when the Navy Secretary reaches in the average Chinese citizen way out of barbour. The frail there has been a record spring- disaster. In regard to the Colony here. In the circumstances it is political capacity and maral Chinese craft was so badly salmon fishing on the river. It is itself, what with the registra more than ever desirable that Mr. discipline that would make him damaged that she sank most curious but striking fact that good and bad rod and net searons tion bill, shipping

Denby should make some public equal to the average citizen of immediately. control pronouncement on the matter democratic country like Eng The spot where the sunken come" round in wonderfully profits, and water supply, one N. C. Daily News.

land or the United States." vessel lies has been marked, regular cycles,