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From the Office Butts,

We are requested to deny the Now that the warm weather is

whom should have charge of his own department and have con- siderably increased powers and responsibilities. It was realized | GREAT MINDS, LIKE HEAVEN,

ARE PLEASED IN DOING GOOD,] then, as it still is, that this might|THODOF THE UNGRATEFUL SUB- possibly involve an increase in JECTS OF THEIR FAVORS ARE TOmour, that in order to avoid here, well-formed giria get before the salaries of the senior staff, BARREN IN RETURN.-Foure. ooming in contact with the the public eye much more oftan but the money would be well

canaille in the Square, church than the well-informed ones spent and

The name greater efficiency

of Mr. H. w. services will be held each Sunday. secured. Mr. Severn, who was list of authorised architects.

Cowling has been added to the morning at the Hongkong Club.

St. George'a Society, Shanghai,

• then acting Governor, declared

A correspondent writes to war Hongkong

had $3,000 profit on their Ball that the proposal would "ao} The proposed sale of Inland siready been chosen as the name well within their means.

our readers that Radio King has meant well, but managed to keep Englishmen Also doubt be a very proper thing to Lot 2420, eituato at Wong Nei of the next Derby winner. Thanks. de" and stated the suggestion Cheung, has been cancelled. would soon come under consider Tenders are being invited for you've

Isn't it a pity that just when whose corn disappeared the other The Kowloon amateur gardener ation by the Government. What the preparation of site and the glasses, comes the season for

got to wear smoked night is now feeling the pinch.

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has happened since then, we erection of sexton's quarters al diaphanous gowns ? wonder? Two main facts stand

Kowloon Cemetery, out. They are that the P.W.D.

Mr. R. A. C. North has been

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any observed on our local bath- Figures speak for themselves.

is the Colony's hardest worked appointed an Assisant to the Seing beaches simply shriek.

department, and it is decidedly Ander-staffed, in the Building Office especially. And there is one other fact-Hongkong at the moment is without the services of a Director of Public Works.

Art O'Brien and Others.

cretary for Chinese Affairs and a Deputy Registrar of Marriages.

The Rev. Fr. H. Valtorta is to be a Member of the Board of Education in the place of the Very Rev. Father P. de Maris, deceased.

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The man who was "fed up" got "fed up" feeding other people. with Army life apparently soon

The yarn that McKirdy had Shanghai Champions Sweep is won the second prize in the alleged to be a joke. The brand

which their heaters are gulled. folk is on a par with the sase with of humour indulged in by some."

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A golf ball leaves the club head It looks as if some of the K.C.C. Mr. H. A. Nisbet is appointed is just a trife under the rate in the open market soon.

at about 135 miles an hour, which will have to buy their vegetables Estate Duty Commissioner, some of our government officials

Often enough, thare turns out Official Receiver, and Registrar leave Hongkong on a Wednesday

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the Peak," says Telegraph beading-/-- In close proximity to the Peak

Possibly our mid-day coffee car, we.presume."

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Bathing reveals that skinny folk have often more than they can bare.

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When in doubt, do not wave. Put on your brakes. You can

get lots of new ones for $10,000.

pianos next.

They'll be inventing wireless

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Sundays to celebrate her " Day of If things go on as they are, China will require a month of National Shame."

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A report of shooting and that gambling was taking place wWAS carried to the police." Some of these craps make an awful noise. Wonder what happens to all those promulgated military pri.... SORETS?

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The Honky-tonks played at the V.R.C. last night. The Bow Wows are now booked up for the tion is going to the dogs. season. Looks as if our recres-

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"Nurses", we are told, "who remain. for many hours in the sick-room are highly susceptible." Which probably accounts for the high marriage mortality.

mariage

to be some technicality in that of Trade Marks and Patents in morning. wonderful and ponderous instito-addition to his other duties. tion. the Laws of England, which enables a criminal to escape just punishment, or protects an in- dividual from being brought to junk 2032 H.W. was drowned! One of the crew of the fishing. trial. This speaks well for the when knocked overboard by the Light Brigade? Because they LAWRENCE. - A

Matilda fairness of our laws, with the old sail in a high wind that suddenly charge like thunder.

Why are compradores like the Hospital, on Saturday, 19th May, doctrine of habeas corpus at its arose whilst the vessel was off to Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Lawrence, very foundation, and forming a Waglan. The body was not re-

British privilege, hundreds of covered.

You can have a real hot time years old, that is denied the sub-

without being sunburnt. jects of more than one modern. civilised country. In the case of has appointed Mr. Henry Thomas Think of the rotten time some

His Excellency the Governor Art O'Brien (whose picturesque Jackman to act as Director of folk would have eating if they Things might be lots wome. Dame has no doubt added to the Public Works and to be a Memad no elbows. matter) and the other deportees ber of the Executive and Legisla from Britain to the Irish Free tive Councils, during bis tenure State, the mighty machinery of of office. the Law has been set in motion THE OFFICIAL WAY. with the result that the gentleman

in question and bis alleged fellow Member of the

Dr. S. S. Straban is to be a Dental Board Hongkong at the moment is conspiratore have had to be without the services of a Direc-brought back to England. In Colony of Dr, Charles Forsyth, roped in all our juvenile foot during the absence from the By the time the police have number of cases, though, includ- tor of Public Works. Although ing that of O'Brien himself, the member during the absence from have been formed to deal with whilst Dr. H. Balean is to be a ballare, vigilance committees will officially described as being on authorities are taking proceedings the Colony of Dr. G. D. R. Black, our armed robbers.

Now me lad, eyes front and -* leave, Mr. T. L. Perkins has in Secretary, as a servant of the along different lines. The Home

stick out your chest. Listen to reality retired. The Government Government committed an illegal!

what the Post calls us:-"Hong- With ber girdle tied round her Just when things are about at kong has developed on all sides, knows it. Everyone knows is act in ordering the arrests and neck, and life extinct, the remain their worst, they let experienced with the result that the premier somebody else will fill the act deportations, and his subordinates of a woman were found under the police officers go home on pension. port on the Pacifle is assumer ing" post until such time as Mr.

at Scotland Tard abetted this verandah of a house at Bay View Why? Simple enough. No man the dimensions and progressive Perkins' official leave expires, lish law is sometimes deserving of wahlau. Suicide is suspected by

offence." However, if the Eog, those of an inmate of No. 7 Tung-on the same pay.

yesterday and identified to be itches for increased responsibility characteristics worthy of ite

proud position,” and maybe even longer still. the appellation "a hasa," the,

Belilios Terrace! The result in that the "acting British Constitution is able to remedy matters, and Parliament process is continued right down has merely to pass an Indemnity

With regard to the enquiries the scale, until, in the final Bill in order to protect the officers we have received concerning the analysis, we come to one man cerned unwittingly in breaking open houses, these bave been of the Crown who have been con- proposed scheme for building Eur- doing two men's work. Such is the law. One hardly dare con-forwarded to the gentleman in- the situation created by official template what would happen were itiating the movement, who will methods in an already much the Bill to fail to pass!

Do doubt communicate with those over-worked Government departThumbs Up!

interested. ment. It is useless for us to When Hongkong's cricket team It is notified that written ap- imagine that we have a D.P.W. was selected for the task of bring-plication for a special licence to We wish they'd settle their on the high seas, merely bounding back the "ashes" from Shang-arts must be presented to the political differences Yaumati way for Home on leave.

hai, grave doubts were expressed Registrar of Marriages by one of at Mah Jongg. We have by many here as to the prospects the parties to the intended mar not. The position is vacant.

of success. It was said that there riage in person not less than

Looks as if the luckiest thing This ostrich-like method of pre- however well a man might shape posed for the issue of the special is that they didn't build further was too much new blood, and even days before the data pro-about the Hide and Leather Coy. tending that things are not reallyin olub oricket. the test of a licence. what they are is totally out-of-interport contest might find him date. It serves no good purpose, the big match, those critics have has made the following appoint wandering about Statue Square wanting. Whatever the result of His Excellency the Governor The next time we see Jones and it is high time it was drepped for all time been confounded, ment under the provisions of the on Sunday morning, we'll ask by Officialdom. The Government The new blood in Hongkong's Hongkong Volunteer Regula-him afterwards what the text has known full well for many when Shanghai's big first-inpings Cameron Crose, 2nd. Battalion

eleven has proved itself right well. tions, 1920: Captaiu Even 29. months that Mr. Perkins was score was cabled, ali seemed lost, The King's Regiment, to be Ad- going on retirement. Then why but our representatives have lived jutant vice Brevet-Major Re-contemporary, the handling of the At Harry Ore's Recital, says a has it not adopted a business-like up to the spirit of the motto il ginald Bradley Young, Sherwood attitude and filled the vacancy chance of wiping out the previous 1st. June, 1923.

Maiden's Wish" was a delight desperanium, and stand a good Foresters, with effect from the to the ear. After they're married right away? "Olo oustom" is defeats this Colony has suffered.]

generally change their the only answer that can The Goddess Chance has been at That witty and engrossing play, given. If "leave" for Mr. Perkins impartial in the distribution of staged by

work again, but has been very "The Man from Torronto," was is necessary for pension reasons, her favours. On both sides we Hollway Company at the Theatre ing through the wrong end of the week,

the Courtneidge-C.S.P. has taken lately to look aire at the Theatre Royal this why could not his successor find men who have sparkled in Royal last night. It was extreme- telescope. have been definitely appointed one innings, but struck a bad well acted, proving one of the best patch in the other. The glorious plays in the Company's repertoire. uncertainties of cricket were To-night the last performance at seat suffering from an affliction Our scoop specialist is at pre- until the leave officially ex-never. better illustrated. Our the Theatre Royal will take place, of the eye. It is suggested that pired? Because, presumably, that eleven are thumbs up", and will when "The Bat" will be staged. he has been gazing over-much at is not the Government waygo to the better side, and may this nights at Kowloon next week.

try their best to pin. May victory The Company appears for three the output of the Helena May Possibly that would be too busi-be Hongkong!

laundry. ness-like our old friend Red Tape would not get a chance.

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

If some of our detectives were put on crime instead of sport, our law would be less of a laughing stock among the Chinese.

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writing to the papers about the The next time you think of pigeons next door imagine what it must be to have to live with a few bandits for the best part of a month,

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Wish we could have a few more concrete examples like those on Queen's Road.

Now that several more volcanic islands have appeared, we are looking forward to Mr. Tse TEAD Tai telling us that they are Subsidence of Land." further proof of "Upheaval and

0. Familiarity breeds contempt, which perhaps accounts for the casusi manner in which all the papers dismissed the story of the

It Would appear that our hold-up of an American million.

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Compared to the time taken to Courts the War Memorisi wa build our Post Office and Law gaite a rush job.

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An oscillating valve is some- thing which moves at a slow rate between Government and the Secretary for State.

The Government is always very cautious regarding the introduc tion of innovations. It took

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We write thus because the

"INTERPORTS SWATOW. policy followed is a bad one-bad in any circumstance, and worse Hongkong Team Leaves.

The House of Commons has It would appear from. Mr. four and a half years to give still when applied to an admit- The Hongkong interport" team to enable Ministers who

rejected by 244 votes to 100 a Bill Jenkins' happy reference to the Hongkong ita Cenotaph. Broad- tedly over-worked and under- for Switow left by the Douglas members of the House of Lords page is more popular than we sometime in December, 1928. *

are marcel wave, that our Ladies' casting may therefore be expected staffed department Incidentally, steamer Haibong at noon yester- to address the Commons, and thought. we should like to know if any were: E.J.H. Mitchell (Captain,) Captain Thorpe, pointed out this day. The players making the trip vice. versa. The introducer,

On November 11, 1918, was thing has been done towards re-E.C. England, Lieut. E.G. Hoar, practice prevailed in France, a shot in this column. he needn't War. On May 24, 1923, will be Any time he feels like having fired the last shot of the Great organising the P.W.D., as ad-R.M..., Dr. Meliowa, W.W.Spain, Belgium,

Mackenzie, Lt-Com. R.D. Paffard, Africa. Mr. Pringle, in a banter vocated by the Unofficial mem-.N., A.B. Raworth, H. Spicer, ing speech, said that the fact that

South bother about asking leave. unveiled the last war memorial. bers during the last Budget Capt. D.R. Wahl, M.M. Watson the Government had constituted pother, we gather that too many barred at Faaling. Shepherd's From all this Status Square Pot-hunters are now being debato. It was then urged that and K.E.A. Webster. Interport" (itself Jargely of members of the people are hunting trouble. Too Pie will continue, bowever, to the enormous amount of detail cricket, football, tennis, billiards House of Lords was no reason few policemen are not. twork handled by the bend of the over the

and "rounders will be played why these distinguished geatle-

appear on the menu. department should be carried out The team will return to Hongkong tunity of speaking in the Comings in our streets that they Suicides are taking more and

Whiteuatide holidays. men should be given the oppor-

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Tough luck on our chemista. can't finish at night.

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