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At a time like the present WHEREVER THERE IS AU- when the supply of housea is a80 THORITY THERE IS A NATURAL obviously short of the demand, INCLINATION TO DISOBEDIENCE.— There is no truth in the rumour An honest temperamental bias the Government should watch Haliburton.
that members of the Housing is often another way of allowing these developments with the ut
Commission are suffering from your dislike get the better of your mental breakdown. most vigilance. What we should
sense of justice. like to know is whether the
Where are those decomposad When authorities, before giving par-1
they Caladonian stories kept? Per Everest we write columna re- climb Mount haps a former editor of the Ching garding the spirit of adventure. mission to demolish occupied pro
Moit had dossier, and that When two apprentics boys in party. take any account of te
A Congregation for conferring before the days of cold storage. Hongkong harbour disappear. number of people likely to be dis-green is to be held at the Hong-Nathless, they mak.us verra ill, they are merely young rascala, da
tong University on the 8th. June. verra.
Many pages of the Gazelle are occupied in setting forth new conditions of hawker's licences.
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possessed or whether they mere- Ir allow the process to go on in the hope that the tenants will
A seaman of the se. Oa Lee: was accidentally drowned last somehow be able to find accom-night whilst engaged in fixing up modation elsewhere. It seems a lifeboat on the boat deck. to us absurd to say that because we usually manage to absorb thousands st refugees from Canton, local
people giran nalica to quit will have по great difficulty in getting fresh accommodation. We fear that Canton refugees masage to find
For failing to appear when his merely having the painters in. houses simply because over-name was called for jury service)
All these courts-martial do not crowding in permitted. And, in at recent Coroner's enquiry ati
the Police Court, Mr. E. G. the Distressed Dogs' Association any worse than the rest. It is Last night a packed meeting of mean that the King's Regis any case, what about the higher Lammert was fined $10 by Mr. J. passed a vote of thanks to the merely because the newspapers
rents that dispass.saed teaarts
Rural Building Lot 224, situatel on Stubbs Road, is to be sold at the P.W.D. offices on June 11th It has an area of about 30,000) Fquate feet, and the upsat price is 84 300.
R Wood this morning.
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Records at the Olympiad, Os, ka, From the look of Government have been going west all week. House, we're not sure whether Five cases of them also disap someone is liable to be Bercely peared from Moutrie's, Singapore, patriotic in the near future or week before last.
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Hongkong Society for the Freven- now receive Command Orders tion of Cruelty to Animals for so that more prominence is given to kindly providing drinking troughs the doings of our Tommies. for use during the hot weather.
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It is reported that plague is be those who cannot find accom-coming more noticeable every mcdation in the city can goday in Sheklung and vicinity.)
They also serve who sit and From Wednesday's Observatory epate. The Chino Mail said that into the country. They have The Health Division of the report:-"The depression has "if the Hongkong men play their jobe in Hongkong-they are for Canton Municipal Department of whole of China." How true!
General Headquarters and the deepened and now covers the best and are helped by the un- MANNASEH:-On May 20, the most part working-class Public Health are now co-operat- 1923. at Hankow, to Mr. and Mrs
certainties of the game, there is E. J. Mannaseh, a son.
ing in preventive measures.
just a chance of their bringing Sklarevski baving left by the back the flag, and this has been PARK-On My 21, 1923, at 9 It seems to us that the time
8.5. President Taft, the date for borne out to the hilt." Wayside Road, Shanghai, to Mr.bas come when the Government
છ A fitnes" service is proposed his next farewell concert has been and Mrs. E. Park, & daughter.
should tackle this problem ot a for Kowloon, where, beginning on postponed sine tim.
Thursday next, the Kowloon business-line basis. In addition Cycle Exchange intend running
DEATH.
The Telegraph,
HONGKONG, 26th May, 1923.
people in regular employment.
cars.
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The Ching Mail temînda us of
Being & godfather often means something more than getting hope future licences cheap drink. to those announced to-day, two motor-cars for short trips to re-issued to peanut sellers will con- PARROTT-On May 22, 1923, further amendments of the Rentsidences, etc. on Kowloon Point tain a clause forbidding the holder at 31 North Szechuen Road, Ordinance are needed. One is scheme succeeds, it will later be the Cenotaph.
at twenty cents per trip. If the to sell his wares on the steps of the secord Mrs. Tanqueray Shanghai, Albert George Parrott, provision that notice to pull down extended to Hongkong. There" M.R.CS (Eng) LRC.P. (Lond), should be accompanied by a will be Europeans driving the aged 67 years.
"A wounded lieutenant of the Constitutionalist Army," statement giving the number of
says May 23rd being the birthday of the CDN, "was rescued after the Laughing Baddha, the Chi- |tenants to be dispossessed. This
lying in the woods for nearly ese Government suspended the for the information of the Govern
A strange case of attempted 12 days. He stated that he had punishment and execution of suicide came to the notice of the been subsisting on in ascertaining whether police yesterday." ment
a kind of prisoners. No doubt they were La Chung- sour plant all the time." That's tickled to death. other accommodation is available. sang, living at No. 14 Reclama- nothing. His Generalissimo bas The other is that, in the present tion Street, Yaumati, jumped into been subsisting on sour grapes for circumstances (that is, so long as old son in his ar 39. They were
the harbour with his three-year-years. THE REBUILDING CRAZE the Rents Ordinance remains in both rescued. It is stated that
9 "The Provincial Government of force) na occupied houses be the man had been without em-Kwangtung has an institute of If it proves to be the case, as permitted to be demolished unployment for a long time, and in oratory at Shoo Bos Hong, Can a reformer who gets mad becaus seems likely, that, through the less in the opinion of the Build-last stages of destitution had ton." The hot air will be used for he can't think of anything wrong.
decided to take his life and that the next drive to Peking. good offices of the Governmeat,ing Authority such step is of his son. new accommodation is to be advisable, by reason of delapid-
The ead news of the burning of .. To save time the following Bostock's Circus makes us tblok found for the tenants of Belilios ation. That, would prevent the
"Headinga" are now kept "stand- of roast potatoes. Terrace who have been given diverting of skilled labour to the trick, two women were robbed of" Another Armed Robbery;" "fo- "Spuds."
By means of the bank note ing" in local newspaper offices: worst of a clown calling himself That's the notice to quit, there will be con-rebuilding of houses which really their personal jewellery and day's Court-Martial;"
"More siderable relief felt by those who do not need reconstructing, and money, yesterday, according to Property Sales: A Super at one time feared that they reader it available for entirely bath cases the men said they
reports received by the police. In production at the Coronet."
to Rhodesis, but MacWhirter, he would be rendered homeless. We new property on undeveloped were strangers to the Colony and
says that's nothing compared to are gratified that we bave been sites. We put forward these sug-
asked the
May we suggest as a source of the swallows that come to Hong- victims to change revenue, that the backs of radio kong from Scotland, only to be sole to play some small part in gestions in the hope that they banknotes for them at the money licences be let cut for advertise- drowned in soda directing attention to the plight will receive serious consideration. that the parcels given them con-
changers. The women discovered ment purposes? of these people, and we siccerely
tained only waster paper and
The Daily Press Eye that trust that their troubles will soon
when they returned to the place Mr. Daniel Frawley came into "made a very fine adornment for This crime wave is terrible. the captured snake would have be at an end. "But this rebuilding
where they first met the strangers they found that the latter had our office the other day with a the Police Sergeanta Mess at the departed, taking with them the awful story of Gold Diggere per- Central Station. But then they valuables left by the women with petrating & Lawful Larceny, the were perhaps not taking any risks. them for "security."
Soviet Mentality.
It is evident that the Russian of old premises in seriously in- Soviet authorities do not intead commoding other folk as well-seriously to accede to the de the poorer class of Chinese in mands contained in the last particular. Elsewhere in this British Note. The only conces issue we give publicity to com- payment of reparations for out. Įsions they offer consist of the plaints raised by the tenants of rages on British subjects and houses in Hollywood seizure of British property. Road and Tai Ping Shan Street whatever of giving up their Otherwise they have no intention who are also threatened with activities, including their Eastern eviction. Doubtless their case is propaganda. The individual who typical of the experience suffered by many others.
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Which reminds us that, local not nearly in it compared to those clude teaching the points of the registered at Taikoo last week compass in their curricula in order Here's hoping for a good show that the coming generation may Pts. to-day in the Far East Interport be able to understand Traffic Re
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as in charge of the Department of Lies and Bureau of Rosy Pro- mises has been transferred to On this general question of the the Commissariat, presumably on
I.R.C C.B.C. pulling down of bousehold pro- promotion, because it will mean a
relaxation for him. The so-called H.K.C.C. perty we cannot help thinking conciliatory Russian reply, recent-
U.S.B.C. that the Government has not yet ly sent to Briten as a supplement
University..... fully realised the seriousness of to the first one, continue to dis
Kowloon the issue. That is why we re-tions about poisonous propaganda pute the complaints and accusa-
Civil Service... Club de Recrei cently urged, and again do 80, in the East. The leopard cannot. that the subject be taken fully into change his spots,nor the Bolshevik
"B" Division.. account when the Rents Ordin- bis warped outlook on life. From a hounded mesial of the auto- ance comes up for amendment. cratic Czars and their myrmidons, Queen's College Though we are quite prepared to with nihilism as his doctrine of R.C.C. (A).......
University agree that it will be all to the revolt, he has become the essence
of misguided effort, ill-judged Civil Service... good of the Colony, eventually, opinion, and crooked judgment, Craigengower (B) 4
| L.R.C, that old, ramshackle buildings with his hand raised against Kawicon (B) should be demolished and better all men holding contrary viewa—. houses built in their place, the and he will continue for long to Club de Recreio 3 0
have every man's hand raised Netherlands T.C. 4 point cannot be denied that against him, in self defence.
Craigedgower (A) 4.0 much of the rebuilding which
To-day's fixturea :--- is now taking place is based
"A" Division. RETURNED WITHOUT THANKS. desire by landlords to Opening a parcel received by Club de Recreio v C.R.C. get bigger returns on their post from Germany the Mayor University ▾ L.B.C.
of Grimsby found it contained Kowloon money. They have no altruistic
v.P.8.B.C. piece of red granite. The motives, and they do not concern only conclusion the Mayor could
"B" Division, themselves in the least degree come to was that spalite German Ecloun (A) < C.R.C.
Now that the Cenotaph bas with any inconvenience or hard-fisherman was returning a mis-I.R.C.
sile flung aboard his ship by Club de Recreio v NetherlandsT.C.now where the North corner of been unveiled, lots more folk
the Club is. Queen's College v Craigengower(B)
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TD. ship which their action involves. Aberdeen strikers during the re- Craigengawer(a)v Kowloon (B)
We say most emphatically that cent attack.
The man who invented prickly beat is still at large.
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After several bortige Lempts, Shaibing has at last auccumbed to capitulation.
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Shanghai and than Swatow. Must be that Glaxo stuff that's doing the trick.
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We propose that a couple of before-and-after photographs be taken of this narrow thoroughfare Local Snakes: Two Captur
for the benefit of our Traffic Offics ed" says a Telegraph poster. and all who think we like climb Tangible evidence that it wasn't ing over rickshas and brokers the kind you thought you raw, on the way to our mid-day meɛ)...
Kowloon Cemetery is to have quarters built for its sexton. And they always said that this part of the peninsula was unsuitable
for building
Mr. H. A. Nisbet is appointed Official Receiver, and Register of Estats Duty Commiss oner, Trade Marke and Patents in ad- dition to his other duties. There will be no addition to his salary,
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