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DAY BY DAY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

PURCHASE OF TITLES.

KING EDWARD'S CABBY,

The Burns Nicht Dinner will San Marino Traffic Recalled. Half a Century on the Rank. be held at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow night.

of Breeze Point.

The issue of the recommenda.

How a London cabby one night tions on the party political picked up the late King Edward system of bargaining for titles

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1923.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

as a casual fare is told by Mr.BUTTER IS ALL FOOD & NO WASTE"

A report has been made by the brings to mind the fact thai, in}Joseph Rogers, veteran of 80. Master of the 9.9. Hein Ling An, a tiny country in the middla of with nearly half a century's ex A Chinese-owned vessel which Italy, there was recently closed | perisace of the roads, came into port this morning from down the very last market. at "It was long before his Majesty Swatow, that on the way dawn he least in Europe, where titles of sighted a water-logged junk south nobility could be openly purchase to the throne that I had the jab of driving him to Marlborough ed. The reference is to San House," said Rogers to a Puly Marina, that miniature country Chronicle representative, chatting within a country left by some fat old times, at his Islington Five armed men were taken bachronism of history high the Shamsuipo Police early this

(home at Queen's Cottagra, and dry in the centre morning as the result of a railon of malern Italy. The smallest

I happened to be on a rank- No. 86 Yee Chow Street. They republie in the world, with an close to White's in the West-end, will be brought before the Masarea of only 32 square miles, she when I was called to the club by istrate to-morrow to be charged was, however.fully recognised by an attendant, and there I found with possession of arias.

the Powers as

that the passenger wanting me "Sovereign 3 State." As such she had, of was none other than the Prince The summonses which it was course, the right to grant tules of Wales of that day. There was; intended ta bring against where she would. and for many no mistaking him-the face and tbe Chinese who

engaged years she availed herself of this figure were too familiar for thi

from

been obliterated.

1.

of curious

:

(dows we are, and what shadows

Man is but a vapour here

below.

in the fir:og of crackers richt.

"The Tun 10 Marlborough in the recent calebration of the Io

censorious world House was no great distance, an i overthrow of the Canton Govern-saspleions have at various times we were there in a few minutes. men:, Lave been dropped, record-|been cast-probably by the I hadn't any chaverestion with! ing to information secured this jealous-upon ether brands of the Prince: one daren't talk to a morning.

itute.

the San Marino fare in such pireu distances unless About thete could ba no spoken tɔ. Yesterday an envelope contaizspicion at all. Like the

POKENS AS PASSENGER ing the sum of $2,0M in notes arter in the traditional tale of was stolen from a desk in M.Lord Melbourne, there was no

Natural, in my tim I have Shek Shu-kai's residence at No nonsense about merit brought | been cathy for a number of notable! 117 Bulkeley Street, Hunghom, to the affair; neither did the people. Several times Charles A bouse coolie issuspected." "Str. [local press print leaders calculate | Dickens has been my passenger Shek is the contractor who ied ca interiere, with the delicate He used to hire an affroad in undertaking the work of excava-joperations of a legitimate trade. Furnival's Inn, and hailed from tion at Kowloon Dock.

One simply got in touch with the a stand hard by. I drove him to "proper patter." paid so many various places. He Was а That the working of the postal cance and the honoured title of talkative.

pounds down-aturally in ad-lit stinetive personality, but not service in some parts of the Fat count was yours. For so m205 East requires improvement was pounds more the social aspirant outstanding fiqure. gentlemanly Henry Irving was another somewhat strikingly indicated to could claim a marquisate or even and generous, never paging less day, when we received a package la dukedom. And since, even than double face. I remember him

Shanghai that had no these levelling days, few have the stamps on it set had not been hardihood to stop & dinke in the elias William Terriss at the taxed, and another package franstreet and ask exactly what he

stage door of the Adelphi, when Japan with a stamp that had not a duse of the tines of Santed the phrase. What sha

Matino were found to answer we pursue To which Terrisa every reasonable requirement. Mrs. Henderson, living at NS2. Through all sorts

replie t- 9 Queen's Gardens, has reported channels the glad tidings of the to the Police that a man who new venture spread far abeld came up behind her whilst she fadds our curre-pondent), and the was walking at Glenesly yester-title-laving Latina eagerly availed day morning, snatched her hand themselves of the opportunity sol bag containing a sum of $6, a siivet generously provided. The patents., mounted notebook, and other each signed and sealed by the small articles. She estimates her Sovereign State, were

at least loss &: $26. After the theft the genuine, an advantage in coun- ΓΑΤΑ up a footpath lead tries where there Hourished in the ing op to Saint Paul's College, underworld deliterate purveyors business. He was so well known discarding his shoes on the way. ¡of bagus titles. The San Marino i

title was accordingly frequentress what he said Ho.ne. No fewer than fourteen masterly to b

met wich

.. Amongst chatty fares was and mistresses of cargo boats Southern Europe. There were were charged before Commander even whispers that isolated speci- Mr. John Burns, whom I have! C. W. Beckwith. Marine Magens had cecasionally round often driven from the House of istrate, at the Marine Court this their way to Anglo-Saxon lands. Commons to his house, Battersen He woul! have a talk. morning, for unlawfully mooring This market is now completely way. their boats inshore at a distance clased down, and the chimneys of Then I have had judges from the Factori are Law Courts in my cab, that bring. less than 1 yards from the bow the sealing-wax water mark between prohibited jamokeless; exports have stopped, is imman experience when I was hours. Lancs-Sergeant Walter and profuction for home con- on the pitch in Lincoln's fas stated that between

sumption is nil. No more patents fields, although I cannot recall! p.m. yesterday he found all the of nobility are teing granted. that Mr. Justice Hawkins was boats lying alongside the Prara. For last year a wave of virulent amongst the number.

London-born. I took to e- Wall between Wing Lok Streetdemocracy swept the miniature and Kennedy Town. None c country to its very heart, and an ibing at 22, having started warningi them had permits. The defen ignorant and unreverential pro- my living at 12, and the open-air dents pleaded guilty, but stated letariatdecided unanimously that life has so built up my constitu that they had been working care the sale of titles was no longer tion that I have never requited a and had no time to get permits, han affair that a cwillend people doctor for any illness. Fines ranging from 37 to $10 could were imposed.

A NUNNERY LOOTED.

Gang on Lantau Island.

tolerate.

Menghebor

GENERAL NEWS.

pescavan og NEW SAN

"He cut caper, sad away

by goes.

"Whereupon the two shunk hands warnily and parted.

"One of the jolly sort was" (i, R. Sime, who, besides being a

genial fare. was alengs very much interested in the cab

that there was no need to ask the

"I kept on the road up to 1913, when I was ob iged to give up, as the taxis were increasingle driv ing off the old horse cabs, and the outlook became one of absolutel starvation.

"I was too old to take up the motor cab. I have since tried to supplement ny old-age pension Five men who carried out an

The follow.ng was recently, be minding a few cabo at odd armed robbar on a nanny communicated to Fruter's Agency (times. Cabdriver for 47 prats Lok Wo, Latau Island, during by the Astronomer Royal: A and cabminder to finish up with!! the week-end, when over $3m telegram has been received by the And now I find that going as fai worth of property was stolen, Astronomer Royal from Professor my old stand in Lincoln's Inn

the island Stromdren, Director of the Central tiaids a occasional minder is were arrested on twenty-four hours later. The first Station for Astronomical tele getting too much for me." was taken at Tai O and from in grams, saying that M. Zivierel, a formation received led to the Human an astronomer, announces arrest of the others in a hut the discovery of a new star of the situated on:

distance frorist raguitude in right ascension. Nang Pang village. Ther82 degrees and North Poler dis- were all asleep when the tance 62 degrees. police encircled the hut and were secured without difficulty.

A CAPTAIN'S GALLANTEY. While the steamship Aguila WAN

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How many farmers realise the

No arms or any of the stolen on a cruise to the Canary Islands goods were found in their pusses a few weeks ago the rucder broke importance of having foreign eggs sion but two of the robbers during a heavy storm off Portugal who suggests that the Farmers marked? ask a poultry farmer, according to a statement made For nearly twenty four bour. Union should join hands with by the police, have been identified while the galo continued the cap the poultry societies in by victims in the robbery.

tain remained in a small boat re-

ob.

Sergeant McFall, prosecuting pairing the rudder, and the ship taining legislation compelling Police Cicer, charged the pri-was then able to proceed to Las endors of foreign eggs to stamp soners before Mr. J. R. Wood this Palmas. The passengers handed them with the country of origin. morning and, in reply to his Wor-the captain a substantial sum, the Far East, notably China, Eggs now being imported from ship, said that only the torches lofthich he has given to seamen's behind by the gang were in the charities.

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