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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923.

two, resulting from the fact that we approached the issue from one angle and France from an÷ other, has mada agreement

SCALES utterly impossible.

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COCHRANE-In Blackheath, England, on 31st. December to Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Cochrane, diughter.

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LEOPOLDO LUIZ LOPES.

At his residence 4 Ashley Terrare Kowloon, age 18 years.. funeral will pass the mounmeat today, Saturday. 3

BI (Shanghai and Marau please copp).

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 6 h Jan, 1923,

THE BREACH.

DAY BY DAY.

THE LAW HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES.

Capt. L. W. Smith, R.Q.A., who taken on the strength of the] rocently arrived from Aden, is

Cotony.

It is notified that the Sai Yu closed for the reception of bojies Shek Cemetery, New Kowloon, is as from 1st. January, 1923.

ATURDAY'S YMPOSIUM

BY THE SYMPS.

DO WE DRINK TOO MUCH?

The Rugby match between the The cynic may be forgiven if

Club and the Navy, fixed for to- he finds this climax to the re-day, has been postponed, parations discussions an occasion for sneering commeat. He may wall smile at the mutual expres sions of undying friendship

To-day we start a new feature, look on the face of the average which followed the collapse of

which we hope to continus every healthy Britisher in the roraldia. the conference. The * friend-

Saturday, and to which we invite triots at Home If you offered him ship" may be there still, but the

subjects will be chosen. our readers to contributa. Topical some of the weird mixtures we close understanding of the past

This swallow out here. Even some of week, our contributors deal with our neighbours haven't yet got has most certainly vanished.

the question: "Do wo drink 300 into the habit of expecting their Tenders are being invited for much?" The change of Ulavernment not-

On Monday next, we stomsohs to thrive on this stuff. withstanding, we have not got iron calumas and structural work ject for discussion, and those who whisky.

the supp's and erection el cast hope to announce the next sub- Singapore sticka mainly to Drinking, like most beyond the stage when Mr. for the superstructure of Queen's feet disposed to express their other things, is all very well in Lloyd George (or was it M. Statue Square Pier.

views thereon will be asked to moderation. And if we're going Poincare?) declared that "we

forward their contributions not to drink, let's drink more like the Invitations are out for the an-tater than Friday morning

Britishers we are. Whisky for agree to differ." But for the aus bair of the Institution of seriousness of the issue involved, Edgineers and Shipbuilders of we can imagine the ex-Premier Hongkong, to be held on Friday,

26:h instant. ebuckling over the olfetemps that has ensued. France is still

The Gazette contains a despatch apparently hoping that Britain from the Secretary of State regard. may rally to ber scheme if it)ing the prohibition of importation proves & success, but we cannot of intoxicating liquors into the

Onited States of America. feel very optimistic on that point. We have had enough of confer- ences, at any rate; and it is about time Britain went her own way in dealing with the large international problems that still Await solution.

Twelfth Day.

or

foder is the Epiphany, Twelfth Day, which-up to a com paratively recent period was very elaborately celebrated in Britain.

WAS called

It is notified that vessels

-

No Standard of Limit. (BY MOPOKE") As 033 of the multitude centuring to spaak far the

I multitude,

should emphatically Sel

like

82001

excessive drinker !!!

than

Bay

in

the Thistle and beer for the Rose. Those drinks didn't do our ances. tors much harm, and, in modara- tion, they won't hurt us a deal. What's yours?

It All Depends.

(BY TREGA VETHAN.") The framer of this question, it

moments by

fo-

when I

But as an individual speaking for individuals, I should say in some cases) emphatically Yos! seems to me, must have been a Unfortunately there is no bit of a student of psychology. From the Credit Foncier standard of limit. The capacity Asking it at this time of the year.

Orient, agents of of one individus! would surely when most of us have at least d'Extrema L'Union Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. prove the incapacity of another. a nodding acquaintance with that of Paris, we have received a neat Take for example the case of the morning after-the-night-before ** little pocket book, issued by the man who brązs about the number feeling, be evidently counts on s latter Company.

of pints of beer he can consume, substantial majority in the affirm- Within an hour be will probably alive. With that much sasured, There will be a Tea dance at the sink anything up to a dozen, and he could then point proudly Hongkong 25 & Colony Helena May Institute on Thurs-appear as calm and collected as to

fall

for of hope

the day neri, January 11th, at 5.30. the most fervent abstainer......... p.m. Tickets, one dollar. each. Now, make me drick a couple ture, because, as the preachers should be obtained beforehand within a half an hour and I as. tell us, conviction of sin is the Juma a tell-tale hectic flush, first step towards reform. All from the Secretary.—Advt.

proceed .to walk sideways the same, £ am seriously troubled.

crab-and complain¦lo attempting to answer the of spots before the eyes! quary. If I had been asked As a popular festival it stood in equipped with wireless telegraphy Which of the two has really hai whether "other people" deink too England ooly inferior to which have recently communi. too much? The man of many much, I should probably reply The Christmas. The main idea of the cated with Bangkok from Koh-si-

festival arose in the desire to do cbang should now communicate piats has undoubtedly stretched that "Some do, and some don' 2"

something

his But the use of the" we * ln the p.mbonour to the

three wise men through the naval vessel moored

imagination—and that cannot be question necessarily makes it a papers of the Nativity, and the origin is at Koh-si-cbang.

good fo: bim. But whereas he very personal issue. And whilst so ancient as to be lost in

would easily pass muster before self-confession may be good for obscurity. There are those who Notice is given that the Gover-Pussyfoot (providing he could the soul, it's rather inclined to see in its beginnings the survival oor in Council purposes to make hold his breath) I, of the modest make one feel a trifle cheap. I of an even more accient pagan an order for the closing to public custom, and others trace is to a traffic of that portion of Caroline o pints would be adjudged an supposo I'm not any better or Any worse than the average Roman custom observed by the Hill Road from the north-eastern!

like to think I'm children at the end of their corner of Garden Lot No. 38 to Take another case. During the man-I saturnalia. In England the practhe northernmost point of the Holidays 1 unexpretedly called Dot, sayhow. But I will.can- tice arosa of making a cake, with Chinese Cemetery on Inland Lot on & so I call secret drinker didly admit that there have been occasions when I have been Uncera:noniously a bean (or a silver penny) No. 393. Į inserted. which

opening the door of his dea of absolutely convinced that I have

drunk too much. bim I caught

The other: Twelfth cake ". When the The Water in storage in the iniquity.

morning was a case in point. I ack of pouring -out family and their friends had reservoirs of the Colony on 1st the

Hongkong 1,089.20 stiff ball tumbler-seat! The awoke with a throat like a piece The pessimista have been vin-assen bled on Twelfth Night, the inst. was:

cake was divided by lot, and box. million gallons and Kowloon door of what I hai on previous of blotting paper, a tongue as dicated. Britain and France lever co: the piece with the bean 289.78 million gallons.

The visits, taken to be a wardrobe, rough as the tiger's at Harmiton's have told the world that they was called "King of the Bean."Egures at the same date last stood open, exposing enough Circus, & thick brown breath, & cinnst see eye to eye on the Sometimes there would also be a year were 1,385 41 and 269.76 re. bottles to last the ordinary being head throbbing like a motor- Queen of the Ban," The spectively. The consumption per lifetime. Realising that i had engine, my bedroom strewn with reparations issue, and the Paris-election of these "nonarchs bead per day in Hongkong was caught hita red-handed, he gulped confetti eren found some in Conference bas definitely broken was often attended with some 16.6 gallons and in Kowloon 12.6 down the wad. "You know, Old my bath!) and I had forgotten Chap." he said. "I really don't where I had put my false teeth down. It is presumed that France form of ceremonial. The customs gallons.

know what I should do out East the night before! Had I then been of Twelfth Day were even ob will cow put into execution theserved by Royalty, and a historian

asked: "Do we drink too much?” During last year there were without protection and comfort I plan to which she asked the of King Henry VII's reign has examiced under the Sale of Food derive from my store. So many my reply would have been ap Allies to subscribe, but to which left a record of how the Court af and Drugs ordinance 55 samples beastly diseases bere-ous really emphatic 'Yes' Equally, I have

had Trus has to take some:bing. Britain could rot agree. There that day kept the festival. Gold, of milk, seven of whisky, five of to the tradition of his kind, he did have felt that опе couldn't

myrth, and frankincense had their beer, three of brandy, two of rum not even enquire if I had a throat. possibly drink "too much is no call at the moment to due part in the proceedings and and one each of gio, port, sherry Within five minates he was at it that's generally after been about discuss the respective merits of the Archbishop of Canterbury had and stout. All were genuine save again, this time explaining that takes no need of the monow or the third cocktail, when men the British and French schemes. a share in the ceremonial. In six of milk and one of whisky.

he really must have a *little They are necessarily, in view of Court and the Universities ob . E. R. Dorey, A.R.C.S., food farewell in order to go

gargle." lo disgust I bade him what it may bring forth.

AS I'm Not exactly | the tremendous financial ramifica-served the feast of the Epiphany ACL, F.CS. will lecture on where I could get drink, Frohibitionist, neither do I hold

tions involved, matters which are with grest splendour.

Scientific Methods in Detecting tearing him alone again with his any shares in a brewery, I can't bost left to experts. In any case, Old Customs Recalled.

Crime" at the Helens May In-bottles and battles and bottles somehow bring myself to enthuse the fact that they are not adjust-

stitute on Monday next, January and still more bottles of Patent on the question raised. Let us But Twelth Day customs have 8th, at 5.30 p.m. All interested Medicines. That man certainly apply the query to Hongkong able as between the two countries now nearly died out. in common in the subject are invited to at drank too much.

people in general. And AS outweight all other poin's. At with so many other of the good tend the lecture-Adit.

Hongkong folk may, be biased, Cut Out Cocktails. last, after almost interminable old observances of our forefathers.

let me give an observation of It is interesting, therefore, to Arrangements have been made (BY." PLEBEIUS")

a Shanghai man; made to me endeavours to reach a compro- recall some of the ceremonies to publish all the Incidental Do we drink too much? If that in the Hongkong Hotel lounge mise, Britain and France have that obtained in different parts of Music and Songs specially com- quastion had come my way the only rosterday. He said: "What decided to pursue their own paths the country, a few of which posed by Mr. Eric Rice for the morning after, wishing the Old strikes me

most about this still survive here and there. In A.D.C.'s recent production of the Year farewell, I'm inclined to place is the number of mang independently ore of the other.

Cumberland, and other parts of "The Tempest." Ás only a think the answer might have been who

come to the Hotel In some respects, the peace is the North of England, the rustics limited number of copies will be in the affirmative. However, lounge, in two's and three's, sit used to gather ол Twelfth available all those desiring to that's a long time ago. Honestly down and, in cold blood, order tex proving a greater strain on Allied

Night and dance, afterwards make advance reservations though, I think most of us do vad drink it, too. That couldn't friendship than even the darkest sitting down to

special should send in their names us look upon the vintage when it's happen in Shanghai." The infer- days of the war. The battle was supper. In Darbyshire the soon as possible to Mr. Rice crimeon a little more often than escs is obvious. But, then, he won on the fields, at a truly morris dancers went from village direct or to Messrs. Kelly and strictly wise. We come out when doesn't know the number of

to village, having in their comWalsh. Copies will be ready in we're Jounga'ers,

"elevoo o'clocks" th #3 – 8R/DB awful price, but, despite the fact any their fool (usually a man about a month's time and will te nobody, we're ten thousand miles men may have had, or what they that everybody wants a sellle-dressed in woman's clothing) sold at $2 each.

away from Home, there are no will drink between tex and dinner. ment of the problems which the known as Maid Marian.

little bits of fluff to hold the reins,

Unable to answer the question Dorsetsbire the ancient custom war has left in its train, the in the parish of Piddle Hinton Bays,

we're horribly lonely, and-well. myself, I'm going to throw the men going down the we don't care very much. That's onus upon the Government. Lat Allies cannot agree upon a was the giving away by the rector village street with masks in the bow it starts. There's many alus imagine the question being scheme for a realisation of their to the poor of a pound of bread, form of animals' heads. West fellow who's a teetotaller when put by one of our Unofficials in wisher. The breakdown of the pint of ale and a mince pie, moreland celebrated twelfth night he first sets foot on this little the Legislative Council.

each. In Lincolnshire very by carrying a bolly tree through island, but I'm thinking there official reply would probably ba conférence constitutes a definite interesting contest between the streets of a village with to aren't many who are T.T. when something like this" If the rift in the understanding be different villages was the "throw ches attached to its branches. I they've been here a month or Honourable Member's referance tween Britain and France which ing of the hood," originated long the Isle of Man the professions! two. The change in life, to water, the answer must, its dates from a period long before ago by a lady of the family of fiddlers were engaged to predict loneliness, and the nothing to do view of the present seriously Mowbray, Several customs were whom the weaches were going to feeling starta it, and it's easy depleted state of the Colony's the war. That is a fact, and, observed in Middlesex. One marry-doing so with their heads enough to get into. I don't think réservoire, be in the affirmative. however unpalatable it may be, practice in London itself was for ring in the girls laps, each in Hongkong drinks more than her, If, on the other hand, the Hon- it has to be faced. France bad street urchins to nail the coat turn. In Wales men went round neighbours- in fact, less than ourable Member has aloobolia tails of persous standing outside with a wren, or wrepe, in a cage, some but the "minor víces" liquor in mind, the answer is in undoubtedly boped much from the windows of pastry cooks singing the "Song of the Wren," don't lack followers. The re- the negative, since the greater the recent change of Government shops to the window frames and, something like Christmas meds? The young fellow wants the consumption of such liquor, which made Mr. Bonar Law the This was often so dexterously waits," received a draught from more healthy, uplifting and the larger will be the revenue British Premier. The latter has nothing of it until they tried to and there was the opportunity of after dinner. Another side of the from this specific source, and, in done that the victims knew the cellar or a present of money; educating amusements, especially which the Government secures gone further than his predecessor move sway. In Somerset it was kissing the other sex under the question is what we drink. consequence, the less read will in office in seeking to bring the the custom for the youth of both "kissing bash." Twelfth Night, Half the trouble is the vile there be of siding to the existing British and French viewpoints Christmas thora ka hear the burst Christmas festiviti-e, and WAS

to assemble under the in short, was a part of the concoctions we've accustomed burden of taxation." Bo. Jetz

our palates io appreciate, forget the question and drink into alignment, but the funding of the buds into flower. In held to mark the conclusio a of Angels' curses, corpee revivers, ourselves to prosperity! mental differences between the Staffordshire they danced the the Season.

pink ladies-I'd like to see the

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