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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1923.

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THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

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NOTICE

THE YEAR'S END.

A SUDAN SYNDICATE.

THE MAN PAYS."

Questions in British Parliament.

Reflections of Well-KnowN

Men.

IBW

Plantations

PROTECTED DEER.

MOUNTAIN FOX-HUNTING.

Schoolboy Essayist on

A New Zealand Menace. Feminine Weakness.

The Hound Come Home. There might be worse ways of The Times was very indignant |

Sattlers in New Zealand are sponding Now Year's Day than with Mr. Tom Johnston, the most novels is "Weba," the ma-paid for aport. It is estimated Against the flushed West the fells Much more refreshing than protesting that tos much can be silence in the tall sycamores. The last rook has quavored to in turning over the end-of-the-Labour member of Parliament for gazino of the Endowed Boys' that the damage done by deer to change slowly from purple to rear reflections of men whose Stirling and Clackmanaso, be School, Bowness-on-Windermere,mountain pastures farm crops, indigo. The lift of the sky is soft diaries or latters have been pre-cause he had made

erved for us. There is something against Mr.

a charge The Christmas number is full of forests amounts to £173,000 a year. pure amethyst. Save for a whis in the end of the year which giving due notice as parliamen-

Asquith without good things.

Daly some 111 deer were intro-pering echo of waters there is louches the conscience of nearly tary etiqueta requires. This, of time to get ready" is the subject of tate of increase bas been so great

"Why Women take such a long duced into New Zealand, but their profound silence in the date, every one and moves all alike to course, was an attempt to camon- an essay by T. Atkinson, aged 9that the numbers now

Now breaks the silence. The a certain conception of the weak.age the scandal which

are es.joyous bell-voica of a hound ringa Alr. ness of humanity. Even Pepys Jobaston had brought to light in she always takes longer to get cessful acclimatization was made rustle of distant voices the hearty

If a woman has to go anywhere timated at 300,000. The first sups through the twilight; there is... in a year when his accounts have connection with the Sudan Plants dressed than a man. Supposing in 1861. Now the deer are to be clamour of the huntsman's horn. balanced out satisfacctrily, feelations Syndicate, Ltd, a concern they thought that they would go found in the fores! a certain tremor in facing the whose shares are quoted at a to the theatre, the man would country in all parts

and bill Sing, Rowley, sing now, Chan- year. For Evelyn the premium and which has been have to pay. The man would Dominion. They were released of hound sobe, quatering, happy, of the ter, Chanter "brings out a chorus real end of the year was on bis paying dividends varying from 10 just have to put his good suit on originally birthday in October, and it is to to 35 per cent for the last six and do his hair. He would be worthless for cultivation, but they is alert again.

upon lands deemed lovely. In a moment the hamlet the recurrence of this occasion years. that we owe a long succession of

ready in about ten minutes are now invading cultivated lands pencils of light thash and quiver. Red and gold beautiful

Some months ago a deputation

Then he would have to wait for with the greatest boldness. prayers and

for who can remain behind closed grave waited upon the Foreign Office to his wife, while she put some though got morbid reflections, ask sanction to a loan to the scent on her frock, and she would done, Greville seems to have deals little Sutan Government for the purwould take nearly all the time.

As an example of the daraage doors. when the hounds are

is stated that coming home? curl ber bair with the poker. That one sheep run la end-of-the year meditations, pase of an irrigation scheme in

which carried

Melody and Ruby "summered" 10,000 sheep and 100 head of in though we do find him on a visit to the Plain of Gezireh, an area fat-de-dols to arrange. After that deer that it now carries only 6,500 amateur Sanday morning hunts Bowood in the last days of one which the Sudan

Women always have so many

out hamlet. cattle has bean so injured by the friends, even to joining in

hey are oar sear lamenting that he has wast-Syndicate operates and for the they go for some chocolates to sheep and no cattle. Farmers when foxes and cubs were slain Dur ad his opportunities of meeting development of which it had al- in the theatre. Then they have been complaining for some in the breeding cairns overlook- and talking with men of light and ready received from the Sudanould go to the theatre and be time, but what has drawn marked ing the valles. leading. To Samuel Johnson the Government in 1919 a loan of passing of the years was a matter | £400,000. It is true that a new

late through her.

attention to the depredations of gambol and slobber at every To-night they for grave thought and sometimes syndicate is to be set up for this

ON BATHING.

the deer has been the institution cottage door, greeting joyously for agonisel regrets and fears.

Bath-night tempted many boys

et control of forest reserves by a every person they meet. particular loan, but it is merely to make coafassions—

State Forest Gathorne-Hardy provides seme an offshoot from the other com

Service.

We The accept their unspoken invitation excellent examples of the honest pany. According to the arrange-

Bath night is very nice some that the supplies of native simber buat with a flying pack and Dominion realized three years ago to real sport on the marrow--to times I do sail if uninspired reflections of a good ment, the cultivators are to get bathing night is on a Saturer. I required careful conservation, as good law for the fox.

a bost. Our and Christian men of affairs at 40 percent of the profit, the Gov do like bathing. Won day 1 tlement purposes and careless serious affair. Farmers, shep- the year's ent. He looks for bisternment 33 per cant, and the father was bathing, be

thoughtless destruction for set- This mouctain fox-hunting is a own faults and thinks he has syndicate 25 per cent., for 10 or lening up agans: the side of the found them: he hopes, though possibly 14 years, after which the bath. He fell fast asleep, and I

milling threatened to lead to a herds and poultry owners are with no braggart confidence, for syndicate is to be paid for the lickerid bim with a fether and

timber famine. Therefore, sys-out for blood. Everyone has tematic control was initiated, tale of woe in regard to sheep or better things in the coming year. actual capital expenditure they that soon wock him up. I go There must be thousands of tara incurred-in other words right under the water, my eyes

and the Forest Service surveyors owls. have disclosed some diaries, never to be published, they are to get their capital as well. The water babbels wea

startling The Northern fox-hunter is with entries like this at the end back.

facts: One of these facts is that not easily deterred from sport. ofatwelvemonth. December was a

1 come out of the water!-Roy

doer grazing in the native forests He will cast off while a gale rips month of romance in Gladstone's Sudan Plantations Syndicate, ofscription of clouds is given by native forest gradually dies.

Naturally the investora in the

Robinson, aged 7.

are destroying the undergrowth, sheets of water from the nearby life. The near coincidence of biswhich this is an offshoot, are & Hubert Richardson, aged 3.

A charmingly expressed de-and that without the protection tara. Mere mist is not important. birthday with the birth of a new subject of some interest, and Mr.

afforded by this undergrowth the The cloudy sky of Southern Sometimes the clouds say the increase of the deer herds is danger of snow on the felle.

shires trails along the Northern given inspiration to his thoughts.revelations in the House of Com ourselves nice," and they dress

The compensation afforded by sheep walk. There is always grateful is the burden of these in connection with the Trade with little bits of white Deeply unworthy" set bambis mons when the matter was raised themselves up in a blur frock of say portion of the carcass is off the frost and provide the scent

and mate

small For the protection of the Nor is mere rain an absolute deer the commercial marketing impasse. It may serve to clear reflections,

thinking Facilities and Loan Guarantee and it's a fios day. person, reading nothing that be Bill. as Year petitions and meditations, Asquith family. wrote except these simple New company held by members of the to the shares in the

forbidden. Venison may be give, with a good earth. They put a grey frock on to shooting licences cost only £2 takes something to stop the for away. but it may not be sold once on terms with his fox, it Síoreover,

and a great man.. He disdains could doubt that here lived a goɔd

to work, and then it begins to rain.esch, so that the revenue derived bound of the North. A gallop of exclusively for the peevishness and petalsuce Bunkers are exempt from pay-of some other, end-of-the-year ment of ordinary Fort Charges. entries.-Manchester Guardian., The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Wharf, at Sebattik is 2 feet at low water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie Bay (Sebark Harbour) and any Required information concerning the Fort may be had application to

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SACK OF SMYRNA,

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Bource is trifling. miles over soor and ice is nothing cope with the mea ce if the game is in front, and he

deer.

is probusta cheerily ground which posed that the protection in would" mean "crutches" to any certain districts should be re other pack. moved. Killing without restric- Here comes

friends, but as business allies, Melody, here comes Ruby-no longer an oar scarcely needing the presence of mere summer folk. They are part of the pack, of the con. glomerate of hound-brain and muscle which will throw ECTORS miles of country ere sunset.

If we kill fox there will within three miles of a hunters' be wild rejoicings, Every farm

own rejoicings. Besides, the prea- ins will hear the row and add its ance of our friendly pack in the village is a dread to Reynari; we shall bace lowl-peace for W. T. P. in Daily Chronicle,

MR. ASQUITH'S REPLY.

in reply to Mr. Johnston that he Mr. Asquith stated to the House was ao: personally financially in- terested in the company, but the fact remains that be headed a deputation for getting further and savants the world over will reduce the size of the herds, and His maar friends in Walayation, it is considered, will soos toan to a company of which his to grieved to learn that Mr. R. the quality of the sport will be son is a director and holds, with Wilkinson, C.M.G.. his wife. 580 shares, and in which Colonial Secretary, Straits Settle-by the process.

formerly rather improved than otherwise Eis brother-in-l bolds 300 shares. Nor was his explanation loss. When he retired from the ments, has suffered a grievous entirely satisfactory, since he ac- Governorship of Sierra Leone knowledged that he was the head

BECOMING A BISHOP. of the Government that carried

he settled with his wife through Parliament the original

Smyrna, bis

family having What the State Gets in Fees. loan to the Sudan for the purpose Levant for generations for the Manchester Guardian some little- been connected with the of the scheme, and that it was the original ancestor went there with

A correspondent sends the only time in his recollection that the First Crusade. His intention he had headed a deputation. As

known information relating to the to the other shareholders in the was to devote himself to literary cost of becoming a bishop, the Syndicate, there is Lord Derby, lore, the language and literature being a case for illustration. If weeks to come.

work and primarily to his old

recent appointment to Gloucester the Secretary of State for War, of Malaya and he was well ad- under present conditions the per- with 1.20 shares, Viscountess vanced with the preparation for 800 chosen for a see spende, from Wolmer, the wife of the Parlia the press of the second edition of the time the postman brings hire mentary Secretary of the Board his monumental Malaya Diction- the news until he disrobes after ing, working. of Trade, with 300 shares, Mr. ary, which will always be the his enthronement, less than £500, garb. The first must consist of. Godfrey Isaacs, late Postmaster-standard book of its kind. To he is an adept in the art of the specially built silk hat, costing General, with 3,400 shares.

The names of the original collected manuscrips and books thing required is a fee by the the indispensable this end be had assembled and economical outlay.

The first more than an ordinary "topper," shareholders also form an in- of extreme rarity and priceless Home Secretary for his warrant, teresting group. They were Lionel value. Then came the troubles costing £7. 133. 61 Then the A

apron," and Philips, Julius Wernber, Altred at Smyrna. Beit, Ludwig Wagner, Fredrick

torney-General has a claim of £9.- Eckstein, Ludwig Breitmayer, down all but the Turkish quarters to the particular Dean and Cusp When the Turks started to burn83.61. A Royal recommendation and Charles Rube. That & com- of Smyrne he was obliged to fleeter costs £9.33.61. Next ac office pany which last year paid 35 per and was, with Mrs. Wilkinson, called the Petty Bag Office calls, cent. should be in receipt of Bri-two days and two nights in an in two parts, for the sum of £95.-robes with long sleeves and bands, tish subsidies, which means that open boat before he reached 29. A fist from the Primate costs the taxpayers are paying the Mytelene, though luckily the 41. The Vicar-General calls dividends of the shareholders. is, weather was fine and the little

Stand and deliver" which re- of course, the grievance.

party suffered no physical hard-lieves the bishop of £31. The Members of Parliament and ships. When he was at length Library of Doctors' Commons de others have a perfect right to in- able to return to Smyrns and made £20, and not less than £10 vest their money where they like servey. the ruins be found his

is the cost of the installation and they would be less than house partially barat down, his mandate, human if they did not jump at the furniture destroyed, his notes

Already just over £200 has been chance of getting 35 per cent gour and most of his precious speat, mainly in stamps and not dividends on absolutely safe manuscripts missing: the work of a word about clothes. security.-£r.

A bishop many years had disappeared.-Ex needs what may be termed walk-

DOP, WHICH IS FARTHER AWAY? CHINA, OR TW NOON?

Eyes Don't Lie

WELL-NION YOU SHOULD

FOR A MINUTE

KNOW THAT THINK

Bad ceremonis!

the gaiters, which again are more expensive working clothes

than

spats. The will be such

dications, confirmations, and at- as he would require for de- tendance in the House of Lords, and consist of black and white

88

These, again, are not cheap. But it is when he comes to buy the and such rsre garments word at consecrations coronations that the notes begin

Occasions to fly in fifties. He needs for this sort of thing gold-embroidered robes, a mitre, a crozier, a pectoral spiscopal ring. When all this is cross, and at all. times the totslied not far short of £500 has besa spent.

BY BLOSSER

CHINA.

CHINA? WHAT

WELL, I CAN SEE

MAKES YOU THINK

THAT?

TH MOON AN I CANTI

SEE CHINA!

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