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of reparations in but another sign of our farmer enemy's realisation that opposition is not worth her while. All the Allies by now, we should think, realise that it is a matter of accepting what they can get, provided it is not obviously inadequate. There is but one factor that might upset everything, and which at present forms a menacing cloud on the horizon-the communist outbreak in Germany. Further develop- ments might give cause for grave anxiety. We can but hope for a favourable turn.

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

"Three sores and a cow" bas

LET WICKEDNESS ESCAPS AS IT Landslide on Church Site. MAY AT THE BAR, IT NEVER FAILS

this morning on the site of the been held up as an ideal of

Whilst work was in proprens now St. Margaret's Church at agricultural prosperity; but two. Happy Valley, a quantity of earth, and a balf saree and a wild goat During yesterday there were cutting and buried three coalies islands of Maui and Hawaii in weighing over a ton, fall down bas its disadvantages. The two plague (Chinese) and enteric the foot Immediately the police Ou Hawali & number of Boy notified three osses each of who were angaged in digging at Hawaii are swarming with goats. fever fone British, one Japanese were informed, and the other coo Spouts and soldieralately conduct and one Chinese), two of small-ties commenced rescue work with adapost drive, and estimated that

0 (Chinese) and one of party-pick and shovel. phoid fever (British).

there are probably 108,000 wild

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The Tables to Date.

my par-

On the other hand, parlour dit more than anything else to wreck Wordsworth's claim.to a sense of humour, ard although remony- trances induced him to omit the

Party in the Parlour" atanza from later editions of Pater Bell," it is the nemesis of fatuity that this is the stanza most often quoted.

The Fire Brigade later arrived, goats in the islands, or one goat but, before this, one of the victims, to every two and a half acres. So Rowdy characters who endeav- woman, had been extricated much destruation do they do to oared to go into the Kau U Fong She was alive, but her condition the grass and trees that she is Theatre yesterday without tickets is serious. She was removed to landers are applying for a grant resisted efforts made by the man-hospital in a motor ambulance.

of 50,000 dollars to cover the ex- agement to eject them, and fight occurred which necessistat- cessarily prolonged, there is little

The work of rescue being ne pense of exterminating them. ed the appearance of the police hope of bringing out the other on the scene. Three men have victims alive. When a Telegraph which may yet wreak Mr. Cham- The parlour, controversias over been arrested in connection with representative left the scene this barlain's housing scheme, bas the incident.

morning the work was being con-rather curions anthology of its Time to Act.

siderably accelerated with the own." It belongs to the most The Far Eastern Times of May arrival of a large force of fire men, familiar of nursery rhymes, such Foreigners generally must be 23rd. states:-A battalion of Brit-brought down by Station Officer as that which tells of the Queen disgusted at the slow progress ish troops may be expected in that is being made in securing North-Chins in the near future,

who was "in her parlour, eating Later information is to the bread and honey." How many the release of the victims captor which will raise the British Con-effect that the other two coolies people can name the author of ed by the bandits at Linchong, tingent in Tientsin and Peking to when they ware eventually dug lour?" said a spider to a fly?”

lost their lives. Both were dead" Will you walk into The incident occurred more than about 2,000 mea. Whether shree weeks ago, and although Hongkong battalion will come up

'but from the debris. constant contact has been main-in exchange for one under orders tained with the brigands, many in Constantinople is not yet de foreigners are still held captive, finitely settled, but the reinforce- Meantime, negotiations have been ment will arrive at the earliest wearily dragging on, the Chinese possible moment. Government parleying with the basdits, who are making all man- Last nor of demands, including

week's bealth return guarantee that no-one shall be fatal), 16 of enteric fever (15) shows 23 cases of plague (ten) punished in connection with the fatal), 14 of small-pox (10 fatal), outrage. Were this a matter of five of cerebro-spinal fever (four bandits capturing and holding fatal), three of diphtheris (ons IRC. Chinese, it would be one for the fatal) and one non-fatal case of CEC. Chinese Government alorie deal with But when foreign lives teric sufferers was Portuguese U.S.R C. to relapsing fever. One of the en- H.K.C.C. are involved, and when foreign and of one the diphtheria cases Kowloon men and woman are being subject French; all the rest were Chinese. University to indignities whilst remain. There were also two Chinese Club de Recreio - 2 ing in captivity, it is high deaths from influenza. time drastic action were taken. The affair is absolutely un- paralleled and would not be tolerat the Grand Lodge of England. C.R.C.

At the last quarterly Court of ed for a moment in any other His Royal Highness, the Duke country than China. Apart from of Connaught in the sufferings of these foreign worshipful Bro. Horace Percy IRC.

the chair, University

Queen's College 5 captives, held by brigands under Smith. what must be almost unbearable Grand Master

the Deputy District Kowloon (A) conditions, the question of foreign and

of Hongkong Kowloon (B) It is now within two months of prestige is at stake. In other honour of the rank of Past Junior Club de Recreio

South Chine, had the the anniversary of the day that strict account for an outrage of ferred upon bim, and at

days, China would be held to Grand Deacon of England con- Civil Service

Craigengower(B) 5 the tirs: shots of the Great War this character, and within a very Meeting were fired, nearly nine years ago, brief space of time punitive mee- Chapter the rank of Past As

of Supreme Grand Netherlands

the Craigengower(A)5 and it is more than four and a

sures would bave been taken.sistant Grand Sojourner Nowadays, the Powers concerned conferred upon him. His many Saturday on account of the King's closed by the death at Edinburgh. half years since hostilities on the simply address notee and warn- friends will congratulate Bru Birthday Holiday. battlefelds came to an end. The ings to a Government which has Smith on the honours conferred chief culprit, and the last to give not the least control over the upon him and wish him many

The funeral of the late Mrs. M. Urchmann, will take place to morrow the 31st May, passing the Monument at 5.30 p.m.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 30th May, 1923.

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A romantic career has brea

in his ninety-third year, of the Hot Thomas D. Waaliss, former member of the Upper House of the State Parliament of Australia, and founder and first editor of the Ballarat Str A native of Perth, Air. Wanliss að a young man was employed, along with Mr. Gladstone, in the Among the various questions Liverpool mercantile house of “The Cat And The Canary." with Dr. Seipel on the occasion father was bead, and afterwards discussed by Signor Mussolini which the famous statesman's

in the mighty German Empire, will not do. It is time the Powers years enjoyment of them. defeated, and almost broken in stepped in and made an example) spirit, faced her victors some of these daring and presumptuous months later at Versailles, where

bandit gangs. she undertook to make repara.

tion, principally by payment of in- The Water Shortage. demaities. That was the material

THEATRE ROYAL.

The Maria Theresa Dollar.

side of the question, for there kong. We are much below the Rain is badly needed in Hong

The T. Daniel Frawley Com of the Austrian Chancellor's re-emigrated to Australia, where could never be adequate repara-average for the period, and even pany gave the first performance cent visit to Italy was a proposal be engaged in journalism. Mr. tions made for all that the wars casual glance at the state of our of their return visit at the Theatre to grant the Italian Government Wanlias took part in the Ballarat reservoirs is sufficient to indicate Royal last night. The piece the right to mint the silver thaler Eold rush, where he met another bas meant the loss of several that the drought is seriously staged was the great New York pieces of Marie Therees. million lives that might have diminishing our supplies. The mystery play, "The Cat and the have not been legal, tender in Marquis of Salisbury and Con- man destined to sobieve political These bandsome silver coins fame-Lord Cecil, afterwards the been of great benefit to the world Government talks of imposing Canary."

further restrictions if there is no rainer."

It was

It WAS A real hair- and to mankind; the upsetting of considerable rainfall within the gripped. From beginning to end of Tirol and Croatia use them as

a play which Austria since 1854: the peasants servative Premier. old standards of morality and next fortnight. But it seems to it was one loog succession of silver buttons on their Sunday bonour: the changing of former us that every possible precaution thrills, more and more gruesome clothes. But they are still in Mr. Phipps, who has died at tho Wood Green's oldest resident, modes of life: the upheaval of ought to be taken Now. Why as the play progressed, with the currency along the northern age of 95, remembered tho time Institutions that men had held rain comes, so much the better; deeper.

wait a couple of weeks? If the mystery getting deeper and coasts of Africa' and are held in when it was country village,

There were no doll particularly high Esteem aacred: and the misery and suffer- if it doesn't, then something will moments in "The Cat and the Abyssinia.

in bath wooded and green, with ing engendered by the conflict of bave been done to lessen the gra- Canary"

only a dozen cottages and three. Their survival is B curious shops. vity of the situation. It's as well.

Her father, who went the nations. The greatest crime of to make foably surs in cases like talent and the Frawley. Company the Spanish and Venetian trade in 1839 patrolled this district on a The play offered scope for piece of bistory. The collapse of there to be village policeman the war, however, can hardly be this. We are sorry to see the in-made the most of it. Each mem- the Eastern Mediterranean borse carrying a sword and tran more regrettable than the after conveniences and hardships which ber of the cast got the utmost out in the middle math of hatred and international result of present restrictions, but, the intensely dramatic situations the development of Austrian because they saw barely a dozen of the eigh-cheon. The family found Wood the Chinese population suffer as a of the character portrayed, and teenth century coincided with Green terribly dull after London, bitterness, the seeds of which unhappily, these are unavoidable. lost none of their were sown during those years of That there is a deal of wastage at this versatile company's bands. Levent, and large numbers of the Sundays. The village had a way- thrills Commercial relations with the strangers & month, principally on horror, the crop being now reaped still going on we have not the least Miss Adele Blood, in the role of Maria Theresa balars, which side inn, now a modern hotel, at by victors and vanquished alike are not alone to blams in this re-She gave a wonderful interpreta- first time, went eastward into Tur- out through the window to way- doubt, and we fear that Chinese Annabelle West, was magnificient were then being struck for the which mugs of beer were handed Bot, returning to the material side spect. We again appeal to house- tion of a difficult role. Mr. Berkey. whence they found their farers who came out from Lon- of the case, how has Germany kept holders to make it their personal nard Nedell was well chosen for way into Arabia, Egypt. and don for a day in the country. der promises? She has wriggled business to do all they can to the semi-humorous character of along the African cost. There Another public house stands on out of a number of undertakings. may come when they will wish went up from the audience testi- popolarity. They were still legal Mr. Phipps used to fetob the prevent such wastage--the day Paul Jones, and the laughs which they have always retained their the site of a farm, from which ranging from the proper pudlab- they bad. In the meantinie, we fed to the success be attained. tender up to 1886 in Tunis and morning milk. ment of war criminals to adequate once more suggest that the re- The other members of the cast all Algiers, and up to 1888 in Egypt. provision of monetary indemnity. averybody alike.

strictions he made general. Treat did their share in making the

The Italiana,, in their cam- That is only play the undoubted success that paigns in Abyssinia and Tripoli, taken a close practical interest in Lord Haldane, who ban always And to-day she stands a de-common fairness, after all. it was. All seemed to have a part found it necessary faulter, with the nation she most

to order the development of electrical which saited them. The whole several millions of the coins in power, was one of the speaker at cast were thoroughly at home in Vienna, and since then they the lanabeon of the British Edeo- the various roles they portrayed. were regularly minted by the trical Development Association at From the leading lady to the war. The old matrix has not ing terms of the future of the tion not only of whether Gering on the defeat of Mr. Scrym-good.

The New York World,comment-smallest part of all the acting was been changed, and the coins are electrical industry, and touched many can pay, but also whether geour's Prohibition measure in

still struck with the To-night the Frawley Company Theresa diod. In 1914 over four cheapening of electrical energy date on the great social changes which ebe intends to pay a due pro- the House of Cammons, empha-stage "Lawful Larceny.

1780, in which. year Maria he thinks will follow from the portion of her debt.

eises the fact that the United

millions of them were coined. and its use in place of steam. He States served the role of a horri. The latest indications tend to ble example, and declares that the

The Arabe call them German thaler," or "the Father industry keeping in touch with the dwelt upon the importance of the point to a compromise-let us American people discovered by

of the Eagle." The Italians have the fruits at the latest scientific hope a satisfactory one to all Europe has discovered merely first hand experiment what

in vain tried to supplant them by research. The more people there parties. The Belgian suggestion, painlessly, observing, in conclu- animals and principles of kindness Abyssinians on the face of it, appears to be a sion, that it is possible that the to animals should be emphasised and stick to the coiu they know the more the industry would be TO. practicable ons, and as the Ger-United States will kill Frohibition year, made to the London clergy an in Africa ior years to come, come quite suddenly and might present trial of Probibition in the on at least one Sunday in the So the thaler will probably linger prepared for changes that might mans seem to be amenable to a for ever as an issue in any Euro-Uy the S.P.O.A. bes the support and remain the last living revolutionize it within in settlement on the Allies' terms pean nation.

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