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WEATHER REPORT,,

THE STAR

Visit of Don Merle.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

"COSTLIEST WAR ON

RECORD."

German Computation of Ruhr Damage.

Aug. 15d. 17h. 35m.-Warning to Hongkong, Coast Ports, &--- Don G. Merlo, socisty enter Depression or typhoon of un-tainer and magician, who opens known intensity within 120 miles his season to-day at the Star, is Berlin, July 8-Economists inl of Lat: 19 N. Long. 143" E, mov: well known to most theatre-goers Germany are buy figuring out ing W.N.WV. >

in the Colony. Mr. Merle unlike that the Ruhe war is one of the Aug 168 11h. 30m.-Watning most illusionists, makes use of most costly wars on record. It to Hongkong. Coast Porte, &c.practically no apparatus, relying may be noted in passing that a fow Depression or typhoon of un-on skilful alight of hand to months ago the word "war" would koown intensity within 120 miles carry but his mysteries. His not have been used, in connec of Lat. 17° N. Long. 128 E, mov-entertainment is the more en- tion with the Ruhr: "adventure" ing W.N.W.

joyable by bis winning per-was the popular term. The Ger-.

dreamed of demanding in a year must plunge the country deeper. and deeper into hopeless financial confusion.

Aug. 16d. 11h. 32m-Pressure sonality, And the runningmans themselves have now come bas increased considerably over commentary or jokes with which to the point of owcing that a war. N.E. Japan. It has decreased he always keeps his audionco in foosting more gold milliards than moderately over Luzon the Bonine the highest spirits. Mr. Merle reparations claimants have evər and Guam, and slightly at Hong-promises us a series of new tricks kong and Yap.

and illusions, well up to the stand- An anticyclone covere N.E. and of those performed during his Japan and a depression is central previous visit. Ho has also a over Tongking.

number of tricks of special in- The moment of" recognition for The Guam typhoon which torast to the fair sex, which should the people in general came on the formed on August 11, is now prove a pleasing novelty. Mr. publication of the railway de shown in about Lat. 17° N. and Marle returns to the Colony direct finit. This is shown to be Long, 128* E, moving W.N.W. from a successful season at the already such that at the end The typhoon which formed to Grand Opers House, Calcutta. of May the entira revenue of the South of Guum yesterday has He will appear at the Star at all the Reich for a year was swallow. curved to northward.

performances from to-day untilled up. Since then it has been Hongkong Rainfall for the 24the end of the week.

ecay to follow events and to grasp hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.46 inch. Total sinco January let, 55.96 inches, against an average of 59.7 inches FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORBOW.

Distriot. · Forecast,

"

Formosa Chsanal | Light,

variablo

2 South dost of winds,

China betwood freshening H.K. & Lamooks. } from NE.

3 Hongkong to Gap E. winds,

Rook ...moderate;

4-8outh coast of generally China between cloudy, H.K. & Helnan. showery:

1. F. CLAXTON, Director. H.K. Observatory, Aug, 16, 1923.

NATURAL HISTORY OF A CONTINENT.

Zoological and Botanical

*** Research. Captain G. Wilkins, F.R.G.S., who is a native of Adelaide, has returned there after three years in the Antarctic and in the famina-stricken regions of Europe He is to collect specimene of Australian flora and fauna for the British Museum. The expedition is to be equipped, organised and staffed by Australians. All the information received will be placed at the disposal of local Belentific bodies, and dupilcaté spoolinens will be given to Aus- tralian museums if required. ·

The big picture showing at the that, if the billion paper-markj Star is a Vitagraph super-produc-toen granted by the Reichbank toj tion, entitled "The Silver Car," the Rubr industrial was worth, at with Earle Williams in the lead a dollar exchange of 20,000; some ing role.!

200 million geld marks, it will be worth, when the time comes for paying back, at the present march af evente, merely 20 million gold marks. This would certainly mean a dollar exchange rate of 200,000, but nobody in Germany will be surprised when this figure is reached.

A PUZZLE A DAY..

Two weights were hanging equally balanced, which caused a strain on the pulley hanging from the ceiling. In order to relieve of the weights, and attached the the strain, some are removed one rope to a heavy trunk standing on the floor. Did this lesson or in areas the strain?

Yesterday's Answer:

Forthcoming Exhibition.

TEN MILLION ENGAGED.. There are ten million people on the German side engaged in the | Ruhr war, counting the familles of those who receive unemploy

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ment and half-time dole within and on the borders of the occupied ferritory... There are other lossca as well. Nobody can count the moral harm done to the younger generation, who are paid out at the esme rates as the married men, and are described by competent witnesses as wasting the dole in dram-shops offer. And nobody has such riotous living as the German ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. yet been able to compute the costs which Germany will still be called upon to bear, when the war is over, to repair all the ac's of her own If a man bought one hundred and French sabotage." fowie with $100, paying $10 each. Finance is more frenzied than for turkeys, $3, each for ducks ever: everybody in the Reich and 50 cents apiece for chickens, knows that the fifty millions of he would have bought as follows: people outside the occupied ter- 5 Larkeys, i duck and 94 chickens. ritory are keeping the ten million within it by means of tho COLONIAL ART.

printing-prose alone; that there is no revenue coming in to bilance the further railway deficit that Keen interest is being taken in may be expected. Ooo may Ra the proposed exhibition of Austra-well add that nobody in the Reich lian works of art to be held in the ould have things otherwise if galleries of the Royal Academy, direct capitulation to French London, next October and Nov-demands made seriously, as an A committee has been alternative to occupation, bad ember. formed to collect and despatch been the price to pay at the about 200 oil paintings, water outset. coloure, sculpture, etchings and But there is a genuine oravinz black sad white drawings. The for order in the taxation question;

Селев bave co-operation of the National Art indirect Galleries in the several State every time in Germany-owing

decreased capitals of the Commonwealth is to

consumption. latest argument of being sought, and it is proposed to The

private the middle classes is that the borrow pictures from ownera of some of the best wage-earners are not really pay- Australian paintings.

ing taxes at all, as the employer, Commercialism will not be in in fixing the wages, has to con- evidence, and the exhibition will eider the 10 percent. to be knock. Authorities of 24 leading not aim at the aggrandisement of ed off on payday, and therefore medical organisations in Japany Australian society or an in- adds it on to the wages at the have recently decided to support

[dividual artist. It will be open outset, to save trouble all round. the Sixth Tropic Diseases Medical to all local artists to submit their "Tax the employer", returns" is Conference to by held in Japan is to bring the best examples of speech in Konigeberg a week ago work for selection. The sole aim the now cry. In Dr. Cuno's in October, 1925.

Australian art before the people he mentioned, so quietly that it of Great Britain. An appeal is almost escaped comment, that | being made to citizens (which in-resistance in the Ruhr was only cludes Aussies abroad) to con-¡advisable as long as it was com tribute towards the cost of pack-patible with the interests of ing, insuring and shipping the ex-German economic life. Two bibits to and from London.

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The British Mussum has approached the Commonwealth Ministry, through the High Commissioner in London, for permission to carry out the work. The

headquarters - will Brisbane, and a series of stations 300 miles apart will be establish- ed from Seymour, in Victoris, to Cape Granville, near the apex of the Cape York penineula in Northern Queensland. The ex pedition will keep on the inside of the coastal range, and will pay particular attention to the headwaters of the Mitchell river and the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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If you've never found your work a trifle zestloss, As you felt a little longing for the trail;"

If you've never known a fever that is restless

And a sense of growing moribund and stale; If you haven't ever thought you'd like to ramble,

Leaving everything behind that you have known; Dropping all the safe-and-sane stuff for a gamble,

Risking everything and anything you own;

If you've always been entirely calm and steady" With the firmness of a lighthouse on a rock, If the springtime hasn't ever made you heady,

If your pulses beat se certain as a clock;

If no silly roving madness over thrills you,

If your sanity and prudence are your guides, And to thought of breaking traces ever fills you,

If you're just is safe to count on as the tides;

If you've planned your life with absolute acumon

And you've never deviated, not an inch;":" You're undoubted'y a useful man or woman

And to but up in your progress is a cinch If no wild and wally notions ever harry you,

You can pride yours-lf on being cool of head, But they really ought to take you out and bury you,

For although you may not know it you are doad!

failed

significant facts which may polut} to change coming.-Observer corr

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