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WEEN OURSELVES. |accorded him by his evening instructed to apply to the court contemporaries. Thousands now that Francis Xavier d'Almada know of him who never heard of Castro be approved, admitted him before. That may have been and enrolled as an attorney Continued from Page f

a tactical error on the part of the and proctor in this Colony. antes onyway that it won't papers concerned, but maskee; He moved under Sec. 6

He read ab linue to squeak. In ong folk have got to live. I'm sure Gid. $ of 1871, 1, even if it is true that you've they don't begrudge a helping affidavit from Mr. C. D. Wilkia- at a lot of my bire money and band to a stumbling and fumb-son, dated 18tb. inst. in which he stated that Mr. Castro had been it back in the machine again,ling brother.

of

think your price a Bsming May be permitted to point examined last month and the it much too high for a ricksha out though, that the sneer certificates of the examination queaks, and looks neither against newspapers directing ill-wers with his Lordship and the thing nor another. Hold-up...

mannered and cholerie outbursta necessary papers had been filed. at their contemporaries was some-He asked his Lordship to approve thing very much in the nature of of him being admitted and on- Oh, very well, says you, you a boomerang? It was the old story rolled. His Lordship-Lat Mr. y think my price bigh but re of the pot calling the keilla black Castro be approved, admitted, and An attorney and mber that you canna" buy ony for did not friend Roderick devote enrolled as

tAddressing the new ng of the kind for the money almost the whole of his flamboyant proctor.. ked

and rococo effusion to that endmember of the Bar) I have much "That's maybe true, says I, but Ye maun be verta, verra, carefu' pleasure in making that order and I understand that you are the re's nothing in the world to Roddia laddie. mpel me to boy a second. Personally I'm no concerned first gentleman of the Portuguese nd thing at a first-class wit the "hing Meil's exhibition of Community who has been ad- ice. And what's re for exuberant egotism when it boast-mitted in this Court. I wish you e, that kim o' argumented that "Alone we did it" but I do success. Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. its both ways. Suppose I don't decidedly say that the Daily Press-Forgive me, your Lordship, if I by your rotten. glorified, old may Ne fairl. retort: We mention that the father of Mr. eam roller, who is there to Delivered the Koock-out Blow"Castro was one of the oldest

vit?

To dispose of it, you've for the simple reason that I'ma so' public

yet satisfied that it was ever at Colony it on the hoof somewhere ony time an opponent to the prin- death. se. Salling & thing in working ciple of the Bill. rder is a mighty different pro- In closing, may I also point ou: osition to selling the same thing that Roddie blinded by his own ismantled.

coruscations apparently, couldn't Another thing, even supposing see that he had my argument. to Ive got to spend $6,500 say, for answer. Of course, there are in automatie automobile I'inone so blind as those who willi lways have the satisfaction of col see. nowing I've got something new and up-to-date and at that I doubt ery much whether the monthly cost will be higher, if at all, than what you propose to mulet me 10. I have also the moral atisfaction of beating some one who tries to best moeven if I've to pay more in the process.

st to take into bits, pack it and

You see Mac, says . I dinna whether you've followed ten

me so far but the thing's perfectly i analogous.

Ay, Robbie, says he, i've co! doubt it is, but I'm damned tired for all that.

And

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

AGO.

A Glance at our Files.

( 21-27, IN973

MAGAZINE GAP ROAD.

servants in this at the time of his He bad bean with the Superintendent of Trade and was clerk and chief clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office for many yests. His Lordship- That is most gratifying.

THE DOLLAR.

Worse and worse! The dollar is down to 1.9.3.8 and the buying rate for sovereigna is $11.65 per £.

THE PEAK HOTEL. Messrs. Dorabjee, Madar and Farmer, lesses of the Peak Hotel, bave sold. their interest in the establishment to Mr. Alex. Finlay Smith, who will take over the premises from the first of next roonth.

PROPERTY PRICES. Messrs. Haghes and Hongb The following is the report of sold at public auction this after the Public Works Committee on noon three lots of house properly the new Magazine Gap Road, on in Mosque Street.

One lot went

that he Snish-account of which a vote was for $2,325, another for $2,600 and

ed his drink, collected his wife taken at yesterday's meeting of the third lot fetched $3,025. and shaucbled home, looking for the Legislative Council:-The

all the world like canary.

A Plague Theory,

MOUNT AUSTIN HOTEL.

dazed Committee considered a plan laid

before them by the Acting H. E. The Governor to-day re- Director of Public Works for the caived a cablegram from the construction of road from Secretary of State for the Colonies! I sea though we're short o' water Plantation Road, Tramway regarding the sale of the Mount that we're singularly free from Station, to Magazine Gap. Total Austin Hotel to the military all kinds of notifiable diseases estimated cost, including sewer authorities, and saying that he jast now. They used to say that and water main, $35,000. It was could see no reason for interfering when we badna ruch rain tha: unanimously agreed that the in the matter. The local petition- plague was at it's worst. If I

constuction of the Road should

ets against the sale will be notifi mind right the idea was that be undertaken forthwith at an ed accontingly. long, dry spring was bad for that estimated outlay of $20,000; the sort of thing and that wi tae concreting of the surface of the

NOT SO NOW. road and the laying of a sewer Our allowance of rain has and water main being deferred certainly been a most liberal one. until some of the building sites so far this month, the total to 10 renderer available have been sold. m. vesterday reaching 25.24 It was further recommended that inches or 11.35 inches in excess the steepest gradients be reduced, of the average of ten years if possible, notwithstanding that! Taking the area of Hongkong us the cost of the work might be increased by so doing,

year.

This

advent of the rainy sea9011 saw the end of it for another Tear Fo had our dry spring right enough and plague was bad: we've Lad & dry summer And plague stopped at about its usual time, rain or no rain. Mind ye I dinna' stress the point but it has inate than once crossed my mind that plague wi' us is purely Seasonal like itchy toes and that wet weather has very little to do write abatameat. Ay, this is the kind of year likely to upset more than one theory.

An Indispensable Supply.

I'm glad to know, however that though scarce, OUT

BAD COINS.

twenty-nine quare miles, and supposing the rainfall to have bsen equal in amount over the whole island, we have had no The amount of counterfeit small

less than 47,309,440 tons of wateri silver in circulation in the Colony fall in the island during the cur- appears to be steadily on the in-reat month. This certainly looks crease and it is high time that steps as though there would be no need were taken by the police to bring for the authorities to cut off the the circulators of it to book. It is water supply for some time to exceedingly annoying to find that

half the change received from a water dollar given in dayment of *

is good. Come to think ofricksba crsampan fare is bad, and

come.

PRICE OF BREAD. Messrs. Lane. Crawford and

1. very few of us really the pity of it is that business roen Co. General Managers of the realise how well off we are in are usually too busy to care to Hongkong and China Bakery Co., this respect. I was very nearis waste a morning in court in pros-Ltd, notify their customers that 815ing that to Mac Pherson the ecatice an offender. Could not a owing to the greatly increased other night when I came in mind fow members of the newly-organiz-cost of flour the price of bread | that he wasna' a judge. But if fed detective force be usefully will be raised from seven to sight we in Hoogkong bave to be employed in Arresting and cente per lb. thankful tor Our water bow prosecuting the ricksha and sam much more so should we be for pan men found to have base coin the constant and indispensable in their possession? supply of milk we get. Like lots

of others, from time to time, I've DANGERS OF POOR MILK. said off-caking things about our In his report on certain cases of Dairy Farm; the

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public

were

GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. General Lu Yung-hsiang. Dir. ector-General for the Rehabilita tion of Chekiang Affairs, and

TORIC LENSES ARE

GROUND.

isenteric fever recontly laid before General Yu-bsiang, Tuchan of quzer be ast to serve. the Legislative Council, the Honan, have accepted the honor- wonder though how Medical Officer of Health states ary Vice-Presidency of the Good many ever stop to think of what that no less than fifty-six cases Roads Movement of Chins would happen and what the infant, have been reported during the the invalid and the infirm would current year. Nineteen cases miss if we hadna' our Diary were imported and of the Farm. From the Mediterranaan thirty-seven local cases twenty: to Japan there's no place that seven

of Есторово can boast of a daily supply of nationality. The European cases fresh cow's milk such as we have have, according to Dr. Clark, with a deep inner curve, which conforms to every movement of here in Hongkong. I've tasted lots probably been occasioned by

the eye and makes the sight warse myself at Home. Lots of contaminated milk supply and we places have tried dairying and are pleased to note he is urging the glass. Torio will set closer to equally clear in every portion of have failed. Our Dairy Farm the Government to pass an here has been on its last legs Ordinance by which the supply the eye than the ordinary flat more than once, such is the diffi- of milk can be stopped for a time

lens thus doing away with the culty of producing in the tropica from any dairy, when such milk annoying reflections from the edge what is, one might, almost say. is likely to cause or has caused the very best in lenses, we recom of the glass. For those who wish essentially a European product. infectious disease in the Colony.

mend torics. The Hongkong Ay, there's no doubt about it It is not to be wondered at that that next to our water storage enteric fever is frequently con- Optical Co., successors to Clark & we ought

be

very tracted here when, as was proved Cos manufacturing and refracting jealous and proud of our milk the other day in the Police Court, opticians, located in 53 Queen's Road Central, manufacture Torics supply. In these Colony has a esplendid health 39 per cent. added to it, and no on all prescriptions in White,

Smoks. Amber, Crookes

to

two the milk has water to the extent of

asset. Without them as they are one knows from what source the Fienzsl typhoid would be as common as water has been derived. Chinese prickly beat, and our womenfolk are not particular. and bairns as scarce as charity.

MR. FX. D'ALMADA.

Very Random.

In the Supreme Court this Random' Roddie has calmed morning. before His Lordship| down a bit since last be wrote Sir J. W. Carrington, Chief Jus- and on Thursday returned 'grate-tice, Hon. W. M. Goodman ful thanks for the free publicity (Attorney-General)- said he wKE

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