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Mr. J. P. Visirs Remedios, of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

FRIDAY, DECEMBER I. 1923

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

OVERDUE.

And leave this classic fairy tale unstated

'Tis be at last-our ancient, annual friend

The serpent of the seat Bat bow belated!

"Here We Are Again.” 10, Morrison Gap Road, Happy It seems to have been overlook. **Sea monsters, which are re- Valley, writes us to say that heed that if the ban' against vessels ported to be from forty to sixty is prepared to meet any civilian containing alcoholic liquor is feet long, have attacked boats amateur welterweight boxer in maintained, to ship of a foreign engaged in fishing out of the 20-round contest.

navy will be able to visit any port British Harbour, Trinity Bay, of the United States. There and fisherman are afraid to go on A very preity wedding was

no dry Davy ex.the grounds." salemnized at the Singapore cept that which sails under the It had to be. No year could Presbyterian Church on NovemStare and Stripes. Our own filly sad. ber 18th, when Mr. Albert Ed-Navy retains the rum ration as ward Bond, the eldest son of Mft much as in Nelson's day, but William Bond, of Leyton, Essex, there is a very sensible artADES was married to Miss Janet Telferment by which a man who does Mackie-Keller, daughter of Mr. not care for rum may have its James Keller, Senior Surveyor of equivalent in money.

In the Ships, Panang, and Mrs. Keller-French and Italian Fleets wine Juls dragged on and still be The Rev. G.H. Douglas officiated. is supplied to all ranks, and the did not come

Japanese, oddly enough, give (Perhaps he didn't like the According to Ping Man News beer instead of the native sake.beastly weather); Agenoy, the American Vice No ship, whether it is a warship August arrived and still the Consal at Hankow (Mr. J. C. for of the mercantile marine, bui scribes were domb; Huston) who is on his way to bas some variety of liquor on Canton by way of Changaba, board. Even the almost obsolete Siangtan. Hengyang, and Shin-windjammer carries a supply of chow, thance by train to this spirits for the "old man" and his city, has not been heard from mates. It is a difficult question Although he left Changaba Octoanybow, but a solution may be] bar 22. Owing to boliday at the found in the comprehensive term local American Consulate, yester-"medical comforts," under which day, further information or details siccbol may now be consumed in "of the report could not be obtain the dry continent.

ed.—Cantor Times.

RUGBY.

One important affect of the dis- solution of the late Parliament is the reduction in numbers of mem- beralaf the House through the dis- The following team will rep appearance from Westminster off resent the Hongkong Footballte Southern Irish members. So Club. The Army at Sookunpoo has ended a curious epoch ia poli. ia the first cup-tie of the tical history; and it is to be hoped season on Saturday. kick. that an historian will give us, off at 4.30 p.m.-——E G Moorsam;|with as little delay as possible, af 3. T. Butlin, S. J. Jordain (Capt.), history of the Irish membership D. Logao. 3. J. Smythe; W. J. from the Union down to the Clark, A. L. Gace; H. A. Mabey, passage of the new Constitution. H. H. Day, A.-G. Lamplugh, H. A good many people have written 8. Prower, J. Witchell. V. R. of the Irish at Westminster from Jones, W. R. Andrews and A. N. Jone point of view or another, but Other.

there has been no complete his- tory, and the mixture of comedy and tragedy involved should make & very readable book. Especially in the last fifty years: Irishmen havecounted in the life of Westminster. There were episodes earlier, such as the Disraeli- The situation in Kwangsi isConnell inbroglio and the still bad, according to our Canton Althorp-Shiel affair. But it was correspondent, who states that only in the seventies that the reports from Wuchow show that Irish became formidable as an most of the leading shops and organised party, and the years banks there, including the piece that followed were rich in Roods houses, have closed down. Parliamentary anecdotage. It in stated that Sum Hung-ying. who has established himself in

KWANGSI CRISIS.

Banks and Businesses Close.

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But now he comes-whole lots of him together!

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Lo, the poor serpent, whose {untutored mind,

Deceived by-is it Luke's or Martin's ?—summer,

Persuades bim to appear at{ last-to fod

For him no mortal prospect could be glummer!

This trick while August lingers should be done;

It now too plainly lacks all rhyme and reason-

The sun may shine, but co October sun

Can reinstate a. vanishad Silly SEASOD.

Our luckless friend has caught the very slump-

This is no time to seek his annual mention.

While men of State remunt their autumn stump

And claim men's undivided, sole attention.

The serpent's fearsome tale in idle bounce-

Who cares for this bolated apparition.

What time the Wizard rises to announce

The war for death) song of bis Coalition?

Lucio, in the Manchester Guardian.

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BRITAIN'S PREMIERS.

ATTACK ON LADY IN BURMA A dastardly assault 00 European lady travelling alone) in a second class carriage on a night train from Rangoon to Prome was recently committed, it is stated, by a Burman who Kweilin, bas declared himself Before the sudden death in got in from the lavatory and sub- Commander-in-Chief and Civil October of Mr.llenac Guggenheim sequently jumped off the train. Governor of the Province and has his firm consisted of seven bro The lady was found in an al- Issued notices toviting tenders thers, and in that respect was most unconscious condition. Her

A Record Of Their Fate for the gamblingmonopoly, to meet apparently unique among busi-face was battered and bleeding. military expenses. He has also ness firms in Britain. Even the The police were informed at the baving to resign, writes a corres- Mr. Lloyd George's griel at declared that be intends aiming Rothschilds, whose varicus next station and subsequently an

rondent

Manchester at the capture of Wuchow. representatives have worked ex-constable WAS

A report from Shanghai states harmoniously together for cearly Paungde tespital whes injuries the reflection that his fate is arrested in Guardian, might be tampered by that a large number of notes for a century and a half, Dever were believed to be due to jump better than the of many of his the military have been sent to bad more than brothersing off from a running train. Sam Hung-ying, whose appoint-in partnership at one time. The ment as Commander-in-Chief to nearest approach to the Guggen. altack the Cantonese forces has heim record is that of the six

five

to the

predecessors as sak out in a Short History of the Prime Ministers in Great Britain,"

been made by Sun Yat-sen, who brothers who in 1856 started the THE CLAN OF SMITH," published in 1733. ~

also favours Sum being made Morgan. Crucible Works at Bat- Civil Governor.

SHANGHANGAMBLING ACTIVITIES.

terses-the first in England to

make plumbago crucibles,-and

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10:

3

This concludes with a tabular statement prepared for the benefit of any reader desirous to behold subsequently founded two lead. Leads All Others in Numberspat one view the diverse casualties ing trade papers. The Iron.

of the sundry Prime Ministers monger" and "The Chemist and **No came stands so high an.above mentioned: "~ Druggiat." Sir Walter Vaughan unchailengeable as the name of Dy'd by the halter "Cricket Fighting" One of Morgan, the youngest of the Smith," said Lord Birkenhead in Ditto by the ax›

the Games.

brothers, relates that he was chief a recent speech at a gathering of Ditto by sturdy beggars cashier at the Manchester branch the After-Dinner Club. Moreover, Ditto untimely by private One of the numerous forms of of the National Provincial Bank the Smiths are increasing at hands... gambling indulged in by Chinese when his elder brothers induced greater rate than the members of Ditto in imprisonment gamblers is cricket fighting or, a3 bim to resign and join them any other family. In the com-Ditto in exile they would have it," Autumn in business in London. The mercis section of the current Ditto penitent game," says the Shanghai Mer-partnership was unbroken until London Directory the Smiths fill Saved by sacrificing their

1886, when death removed one eighteen and a half columns to the Master

cury.

1.

Each player brings with of the brothers, and each of Joneses ten and the Browns nine him to the scene of action the "remaining brothers re- and a half. Next comes the Sum total of Prime Ministers... 25

his own cricket which is in-mained in the firm until his variably a well-trained josect, death.

and which goes into the busi

ness with as much excitement

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Williamses with eight columns, the Lest such an appalling record Wilsons with five sud a half, the should deter any present-day Evanses with Ave and the Robin-statesman from accepting high soos with foar. Of the many office (adds our correspondent) I Macs in London the most numer-

and enthusiasm as its owner. There seem to be many earnest The game is one of the forms of students of politics who areous are the Macdonalds with the gambling prohibited by the laws anxious to reform the House of Mackenzies next.

of the country to which, however, Commons. First, & correspon. In the United States also the many of the "gamblers pay nodent urged that there should be no Smiths predominate largely over heed. The stakes, of course, members of Parliament under 40 all other clans. A report issued depend on the earning capacity years of age, and now comes the three years ago by the. Bureau of of those indulging in the game suggestion that every M.P. should War Risk Insurance states that but, compared with other forms bave to pass a qualifying ex- there were enough man of the of gambling, they are high. amination Perhaps the latter sugname of Smith who joined the

So far as is known, there are gestion would meet with the American army during the war to two places in the Settlement stiffest opposition. But the desir make up fifteen regimente;” alao where cricket fighting is carried ability of such so examination that "the Johnsons made up on-one is located in an alleyway bas been urged before. Johnelevenregiments, theBrownseight off Canton Road and the other Stuart Mill was in favour of and there were seven regiments in the vicinity of Thibet and such an examination, and in 1859 of Williamses, Joneses, and Bubbling Well Roads junction. Joseph Livesey, then member for Millers." The corresponding pro- The gamblers attend at the Preston, asked the House to make portion of the commoner eur. former place in the morning, an educational test compulsory names 15 approximately transferring their activities to for new members. Livesey's pro- follows:- the latter in the evening.

posal found only a handful of Despite frequent police prosecu-supporters.. Shortly afterwards tions, gambling is going on in the Prince Consort sent Lord the Battlement with great vigour, Derby the papers which the Dake the Blues imposed by the Mixed of Edinburgh had been set when Court being, in the opinion of the be passed as a naval cadet. better element among the Chin- When returning them the Prime ese, not much of a deterrent. Minister wrote: "As I looked

to

In the alleyways, and by-waye over the papers, I could not but in the vicinity of Boous and feel grateful that no such ex- North Szechuan Roads, “gambling|amination WAS ECEssary proceeds pretty freely, and not qualify her Majesty's Ministers infrequently fights amongst gam-for their office,, as it would blers cause neighbours to invoke seriously increase the difficulties the use of the police whistle, jof forming an administration."

America London. Smith..... 15 Johnson...... 11 Brown Jones Williams.

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NEW CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE."

A buze obelisk, 162 feet in length, that is, more than twice as high as the obelish in the Place de la Concorde, has been dis- covered by M. Engelbarb, of the Service of Antiquities in Egypt. |

at Assouan.

A funeral chamber, with paint- ed walls, and containing a large sarcophagus, has been opened up at Saggarab, while a burial place for wolves, worshipped as deities in the province of Assiout, bas also been unearthed.-Reuter.

Cleopatra's Needle, on the Thames Embankment, is 69 Feet bigh.

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