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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1922.

The Shek O Scheme.

YALE

A great beneft was conferred upon a key-carrying race when Linus Yale, Jr., discovered that in order to have a strong lock it wasn't necessary to carry a big key.

CYALE

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 14th Oct., 1922,

SINO-BRITISH TRADE

The Chinese Coasul General

in London has just been supple- menting the compliments which

the

DAY BY DAY.

SUSPICIONS AMONGST THOUGHTS |

Whilst we are full of admira- tion for the magnificent work tha |.... Government of this Colony hás accomplished in the provision of ARE LIKE BATS AMONGST BIRDS: many fine roads the utility of THEY EVER FLY BY TWILIGHT, which has long since been proved,Francis Bacon. we do not shut our eyes to the possibility of too much mansy baing

devoted to extensive

Sir William Rees Davies is thoroughfares which, owing to returning to the Colony to

on balf

million

CAN

MOTTOW.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

"Youth is full of sport, age's the cuddy. Ay,I'll admit it beat breath is abort." I couldas bat me. A first-class mystery right, help thinking of this whan watob- snough, the only certain thing ing the swimming last week-end. about it being that the plot was The way you youngsters behave laid in Kowloon. In a way, such in the water is a fair revelation. constituted a blemish but then Of course, alimate has nearly again, that just "ONS

consideration, but, by the.Hokey given. You see, it makes it all Fly, when ages eight and ten take, the harder to guess the solution, The Japanese Chief Engineer to swimming our harbour it the sure test of a really good de-

becomes a mianomer and cause for active story. some hard bend-scratching. No,"

mind ye, that I think any the less A Tale Twice Told.

fpeculiar circumstances such as

genaral · inaccessibility, jooly be used by One The new Kowloon Doak bowl-everything to do wi' that sort o"-ye that mystery writers iscation of the public. The ing groen is to be opened on

thing out here, but still it Isun kro до infallible. I Mr. construction of costly motor- | Saturdaș, October 21st.

everything.

Ray could only have got yon (roads can be overdone, just as it

Our Babies Race.

atory filmed, the Colony would is possible to be extravagant in The Tsan Yok Hospital, situate

have bean kept talking for a vOLT. any other branch of government near the Sailors" Home, in West-fair eye-opener. Ladies, did I mystery

Yon Ladies' Race was a But a mystery to be a decent activity. The scheme for cutting ern Street, is to be opened by say? Ay, I suppose it'll have to sterious. Maybe 'twas the reason

at all, must be my road from Tytam Gap to Shek Mrs. E. R. Hallifax on Tuesday be admitted if sex be taken into no namès, time nor house were O has been criticised on. thess afternoon next.. grounds, and we are not sure that? some of the criticism is not justified. The estimated cost of the Yokohama Mara lost of this one road close jewellery and mosey of the total dollars, value of $375 when his cabin was of which tome $230,000 broken into yesterday. will have been spent by the end

of the plusty little dears bot all

Ay. you was a teaser right of the current year. This is big,

the same, I'm auld man enough enough, a story to make a Poe, It is officially notified that the to question the wisdom of allow. 2 Holmes, a Burns or a Morison money, and the question natural-bathing beaches at North Point, ing ladies of such tender years ait up nights. ly arises whether, what with the Kennedy Town and Stonecutter's to face such a long stretch. cost of construction and mainten-Island will be closed on and after think thera should be some kind night was dark and the cook, I Ab, sh. Quiet now. The ance, we shall ever see a fair the evening of 16th. October. proportion of it back again. Ells

o' age limit or ons of these fine having secured what was coming Excellency speaks of property

days some wea gin will be bring to him from the roast had given. being erected at the far end of London Hazelle is published in had time to learn her two times that individual slithered along The following extract from the ing home a silvercup before she's the signal to Ah Chow. Silently the road of a rateable value of a Command Orders-The King's table. million dollars and of the opening Regt-Lieat H. W. Porter re-fashioned but I dinna see how look round, secured a murderous- As I say, I might be old- the passage and after a swift up of valuable sites for building tires, receiving & gratuity, 3rd. such a long race like you can do looking wespon from the side- purposes. But, even 10. the locality will only be within reach

September.

them ony good. Youth is plastic board. Oa tiptoe he crosses the of those wealthy enough to own

and all that sort of thing but room, an evil look on his face, and or hire motors. We fully ap left by the President Taft were win our Hellespant to make the door, with up-raised arm, he Amongst the passengers who when it comes to letting babies stapping across the threshold of preciate the fact that this road Dr. and Mrs. A. A Fulton, Mr. Bank Holiday. I think it's highlaims blow in the dark. Ah! will open up more beauty spots

time the line was drawn some. Slosh-clang! The dinner gong

Some Bad Habits.

and that those who use it will and Mrs. C. T. Surridge. Mr. J. bave cause to be thankful that W. Alabaster, Mr. N. E. Kent and where. the Government ever laid it down, Sir Keith Smith." but the question really is whether such huge sums should be spent for the more fortunate classes when there are so many pressing necessities requiring attention.

Dry"

"Ships.

America's new liquor laws. applied to ships is evidently.

has gone.

Upstairs, two ladies linzer over the last touch of powder In accordance with the new Wi' swimming, like everything and after depositing thair band- ruling prohibiting American ships else, the onlooker sees most of bags under the mattress, late from carrying intoxicants, thos.s. the game. I couldna' help think their rooms and their doors ajar. President Tali, which is leaving ing, while watobing the aquatics to meet in the lobby. Hongkong today, bad ell liquor at the Dock Gala last Sunday. Yer, a beautiful evening. Love'y removed yesterday.

that it wa a thousand pities and cool and it was to be hoped. there wasDa some swimming that the pudding would not be that The A.D.C. give their second instructor in this Colony. No. sloppy custard to-night again. causing a deal of heartbueting performance of "I'll Leave It To mind se, that I think that cus! No. I always leave the door open. By the Attorney-General's ruling, You" at the Theatre Royal to lifting should be the be-all and for fear of barglars. And so do I it is illegal for Americas ships to night. Mrs. Harry Woods is to end all of our youngster's swim- dear; aren't they getting frightful the Charge d'Affaires paid tonsport or carry for sale in play pianoforte selections before ming but if they're going to race of late. To be sure.

toxicating liquors, whether those the rise of the curtain and daring to swim they may as well swim to Wi' that the one in black and Britsia the other day. The latter vessels are State-owned or not; the intervals.

race and do it properly when spangles goes to her owo table paid tribute to British politics whilst the decision also affects

they're at it. At a very early age and gets the half-nelson on her institutions, and now the t'onsul. foreign ships when within the St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, they get into the water and learn soup and yesterday's dinner roll. three-mile limit. That the decision is holding its harvest festival serall manner of bad tricks which She of the pink georgette, how- General weighs-in with a compli-is being seriously taken is evident Fices to-morrow. The Rev. H. S. naturally they retain as they ever, in the other corner of the ment to British traders, with from the fact that the 9.3. Bailey wil preach in the morn- grow older. Lots of the races room, is observed to tackle her whom he said, China had never President Lincoln is removing ing and the Rev. G. R. Lindsay as: Sunday were simply thrown este abstractedly. Something is

The offertories will be away through bad bad trouble "like she experienced her stock of liquors at Shanghai, at night.

turning.on ber mind. She wrinkles her Once whilst the s.. President Taft, in aid of hospitals.

A lad gets into with those of other nations." sailing

forehead. Is it the fish? Or the for the States from

rotten habit like that, it's knife wi' the shaky handle? Or Uncle Sam, for whom this Hongkong to day, has already Mr. William Goldenberg, part-the devil's own job to break him shesh, burglars. Her head, how distinction has usually been discharged her "hard" drinks. ner to the firm of Messrs. N. 8. it. In the matter of high it aches. Ab, did she put ber

Dn the part of

diving also there is considerable jade pendant in the soap dish preserved. falling

shipping Moses and Company, bas report- 2 little insects in the Far East there is a ed to the police that an office room for improvement. All they as usual of horrors, she roust favour. er is the compliment quite understandable fear that the coolie who was entrusted with seem to think about is entering see, and, wi' that she leaves t be ascribed to

the water without making too her table hurriedly and treks up usual roling, if upheld, will seriously & sam of $111 to pay into the amenities of the occasion, or ships, it being considered likely absconded with the money.

affect the bookinga by American Imports and Exports Office has great a hole. They gloach about stairs. Pressing her hand (left) on the diving platform like no on her palpitating heart, for the are we to regard it as a heart-that passengers will give a go-by

many crabs ready for the pot and stair's are steep and the life non- felt tribute? We notice that to "dry" vessels. So far as C.S.

it never seems to strike them that existent, she barries along the The following weddings are ana slovenly demeanour takes away lobby only to stagger sideways as Reuter gives the Consul General Tessels are concerned, the nounced to take place shortly-lots of points before ever they she passes her friend's door, IT the eminently Britiab patronymic ears logical, since an Ameri chant. of East Point, and Miss which should be remedied and screams blue murder in seron Attorney-General's decision ap- Mr. Dallas G. M. Bernard, mer-enter the water. This is a matter WAS LOCKED. Whereupon she of Woodman." which perhaps can

bip is, in the strict Elizabeth Addis, who is now en ove in which a good instructor [distinct shades and russ wi discoun: the praise somewhat, sense. American "territory route from London by the .5. wouldna' come amiss. I'd like to outstretched ayaa back to the signifying that a Britisher may people who travel on the ships G. Langston, engineer. Staff to wash-out our Interport High arms of the gentlemen, on their And if the ruling bolds good, Empress of Canads: Mr. Arthur bet that this same thing did more staircase only to collapse in the be filling the Consular office-affected must adjust themselves Headquarters, Hongkong Electric Diving at Shanghai than ony-way to the fire escape. kind of practice met with on the to the conditions, just as they Co., North Point, and Miss thing else. part of other Powers. When the bare to if they visit the States. Dorothy M. Morris, 10 Babington boys never seem to take them- What Might Have Been.

Another thing, our great war broke out, there was its that the issue may be disposed

But there yet seems some possibil-Path.

selves seriously enough in the Was there & man dismayed? sa autory against the foreigners of by a higher court, it being now

bath. I've watched them lots Not on your life. Follows reel Some two thousand persons are of times. in the British Consular Service. put up to the authorities to show expected to be present at a big like a lot of

They founder about thres. Quick action. Suitcases Only & little while ago, box. cause why the ruling should be

incorporated into the Prohibition ness

Out, in the R. A. ever, China appointed one of Law.

engineer and architect bath and then it's goodbye to M. C. throughout the last months her countrymen, then Consul. S. Coal Strike.

organizations in the Colony to be training after that. There shot of the Great War and in fall held at the Ming Yuen Gardens be a close season for pola balls.membership of Easms, decides General at Singapore, to tbe

to-morrow. There is nothing|I'm convinced they do more harm the plan of action, after which be As estimated by the former extraordinary in this, we learn, than good. Consulate in London, so we con- President of the U. S. National keing merely an occasion for instructor, I confess I've

Regarding an goes immediately to the rear. clude that the name has become Coal Association, the strike cost jollification. The Tramway Com-hazy ideas as to ways and means in the firing line, sad while got His lieutenant takes his position jumbled in transmission, and no less than £297,000,000. This is pany are putting on extra cars but as to the usefulness of such waiting on the castomary bar- that Mr.Woodman is really a per cent, more than the bill for this point in saticipation of an individual, I don't think many rage, is observed to halt in

Britain had to foot over the the big rush for accommodation will disagree wi'me. Maybe the bia South African War, Of the total.

tracks, his V.R.C. will think the matter overlying on his cheeks, Horrors, #yeballa We are gled to have this

loss no less a sum than £115,000,-1 Claimed to be one of the most and see what can be done.

what is it be sees? All eyes testimony that the conduct of in loss of ages. The loss to the able Nazimova has ever appeared 600 was sacrificed by the miners fascinating films the incompar

follow his fearfal- gaze. Detective Literature.

THE British traders in China has been ineowners is computed at only to "Billions"

HANDLE MOVES! A-8-a-h!!! a pattern for the nations of the fraction of that suffered by the Coronet to-day in what should, by that I'm fonder of than another, silent. Clearing his throat, and begins at the If there's one form of literatare Wi' uplifted arm be rigns to be world. Such a

mon, the rest of the account all indications. prove a phen-it's detective stories. I've got now controlling wit tribute makes being made up by various debita omeasily successful season

an effort bis pleasant reading after

the Without a knowledge of all the Hongkong.

in that I wouldna' thank ye for a chattering teeth, be issues the acerbities of the forties and the conditions,

a book that needs to sustain the warding cry. "Come or I'll blow Adapted from it would be pre-famous French play, the plot of love interest in order to bold the your brains out.” sumptuous to speak positively the picture is distinctly, almost attention of the reader. Such to handle continues to more. The 'sixties, to say nothing of charges here of the merits of the dispute. daringly, French in conception. me, is no commendation, though door slowly opens, all weapons Sash, the of concession-grabbing. In the If the miners were unreasonable. Nazimove, of course, has the Janet still likes to dabble wi'lare trained on the ever-wideo- disputes of the earlier days they merit severe censure; it leading part and she plays it as that kind. Married life is very ing crack. Deither Bide WES faultless. their case was just, they deserve few only could.

A black, glittering, and misunderstandings between is that, as trade unionists in the deep sympathy. What stands ont

largely an incident wi'some folk.indistinct shape stands silhouett- Postry. I detest, but travel, ed against the washstand. peoples hitherto strangers ac-Old Country are realising, strikes

biography and history I endure moves forward, 26 cantuated the antagonism. Time bit the workera hardest of all.

menacing RADIO AS CUPID'S ALLY. " because of their sleep-inducing form and wi' a mozo falls out- What else could they do if theythat of Cupid's assistant in though, give me a mystery and

Wireless has played anew role propertice. For sheer snjoyment a lady. Climax!! has smoothed out many obstacles,

were right? some will ask.

The chattering herd winds and, looking at the record of form of arbitration that would at on their courtship despite the fact quarter of an inch from the end kerchiefs

the affairs of a couple who carried somebody to get if in the neck a slowly down the stairs. Hand- British traders out here as a least be an improvement upon that they were many hundreds of of the book. I've got now that it's glittering free. "My dear" they wipe perspiration wbole, we feel it can justly be strikes is surely not beyond the

miles apart. Miss Florence queer, twisted plot that Iery "what meanest thie 7 Ah- said that there is little for re-

Clement, an army nurse station- canna' discern before I'm half-'tis

B atory quickly told. proach and much for pride, We

ed at Latterman Hospital, (U.S.), way through the tale, wi' the The damsel oppressed wi' head- BIR LESSE BOOT'S BUILDING trust that the Consul-General's

was visiting the Philippine Is result that many

storycke sore, seeks aspirin, but SCHEME.

lands, when she met Mr. Herbert is putasida uufinished. in the darkness over bold, trebles. eulogy is a earnest of the Jersey States have decided to C. Heald, wealthy planter. Alexander-like, I sigh for more the dose, and to the floor, sinks Anglo-Chinese co-operation that lease to Bir Jesse Boot land for 75 Shortly afterwards Miss Clement-worlds to conquer and the more unconscious. has often been mooted in rela-ears at a rental of £i annually, left for Tiratsin, where the radio ingenious the plot, the better. I But wait. Ere by sense bereft,

for his building scheme and courtship began. Now they like it tion to the development of the model village with children's have married, and set out on s

fighting against the demons, of But yon burglar story in last oblivion; she, madly on her down- Republic's latent wealth.

playground,

six months' tour of Europe. Tuesday's Morning Post cowed (Continued on Page 7.)

Chinese.

wit of man.

A

assembly of members of the Chiantil a pole ball is thrown in produced.

hungry seals are rumaged. Kevolvers re

It