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that more are bound to follow if (adequate and cheap means of
transport
guaranteed. If there is not much hope of the YOUR SALARY WHEN YOU IN- district being developed, may WOREASE HIS PROFITS-Coleman ask what justification there is] Car.
for spanding so much an road
THE BOSS WILL INCREAAT
construction in the neighbour The annual Licensing Sessions hood! It is pertinent in this take place on November 2nd. connection to point out that
when the present Peak Tram- way was built in 1888, there were A Reuter's message bays the only about a dozen houses in the Lord Mayor Japanese Relief
Fund totals £230,000. Peat district; the tramway was 4 big factor is leading to greater |development; and no doubt a It is notified that the name of similar experience would result the Empress Hotel Company, Limited, has been struck off the from a service to the eastern Register. middle and higher levels.
It is true that there is a motor;
His Excellency the Governor road serving the locality, but all has appointed Police Sergeant F. Peak residents Ara not the T. James to be Sanitary Inspector fortunate possessors of cars. A for Aberdeen.
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bus service would be too pensive, also, for the majority of
During the past quarter, there residents. As to Mr. Fletcher's were 18 samples of milk analysed assertion that the recent revision under the Sale of Food and Drugs of the Peak tram time-table has Ordinance. All were genuine. | relieved the congestion, it is true that matters have improved, but
Major A. S. Littlejohns, DS.O.. at certain hours it is still im R.A.M.C., has proceeded to North possible to get a seat. In any China to carry out a Sanitary In- case, that is only one aspect of spection of Tientsin and Peking.! the problem. The great need is)
& service which shali take: President Coolidge is reported people living in the growing by Reuter to be unalterably op- BAYOT. On September 29 at districts of the upper levels pese to the cancellation of the Ley's Lodge, the wife of Governor.
debts owed to the United States Bayot, Masbate, P. I.. a
nearer their homes. The recent by European countries. (Manila papers please copy.) public meeting on housing voted solidly in favour of the Wanchai
On the 22nd. instant. Inland Lot tram scheme, and the Housing 2445, situate on Pokfulam Road. Commission again urges in. Is will be sold by auction. It con- popular opinion to be over-ridden tains about 18,000 square feet and by the Town Planning Commit-the upset price is $3,200. tee? We hope the Unofficial}
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, ôch Oct., 1923.
WANCHAI GAP TRAMWAY.
members will speak out plainly In connection with the Ko on this issue when the Budget loon Dock Recreation Club's debate takes place. The alter-swimming gala at Aberdeen to- morrow, launches will leave the native scheme suggested by Mr.Kowloon public pier at 2 p.m. The Government appears to Fletcher is better than nothing, have decided not to proceed with but the mischief is that it is de-
His Excellency the Governor' Wanchal Gap tramway pendent on a quick solation of has appointed Mr. G. S. Kennedy scheme, judging by the statement the military lands question; and Skipton to act as an Assistant to raade yesterday to a Telegraph somehow we do not expect to see the Secretary for Chinese Affairs representative by Mr. Fletcher. this problem finally solved for as a Deputy Registrar of Marri- That decision, if final, marks a quite a time yet. distinct rolle face, because we
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From the Office Butts.
There is no truth in the story Spalling the names of these that Bandsman Miles, winner of kindergarten systems rautiads last week's Football Competition, us of writing out champagne has been confined to barracks for advertisements, blowing his horn.
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Only one case of a ball very Gascon says good gas can win nearly hitting a bird has been reported from Fanling this sam- the prizes every time.
Although the trials were a distink success, none of the cour
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Polo isn't the only game played
Petitors suffered from an exuber- in the dark in Hongkong. ance of spirit.
The Captain Superintendent of From the Ensacial point of Police is closing Shaukiwan Hi view, says a Scotsman, the meet- a bit to-day. Bet he'd like to ing surpassed all expectations, shut up some of our local
motorists as well.
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Funny how recklesspess is al ways associated with motoring. The defendant in a recent hotel On Sunday it was a case of the bar performance informed the more careful the driving, the magistrate that he returned to more reckless the betting.
the hotel after being "bailed out.” Some people are never satisfied. This doesn't apply to the man
0 who backed his car for a place The man who casts aspersions which turned out to be the ditch. is very apt to be cast out.
True, business is rotten, but, on Several of our subscribers in the other hand, our merchants the Amur region have written have all the more time to read asking us to put an extrs wrap- the Budget speeches
per on their papers. Looks as if they're having cold weather there already.
The only people who, seem to be busy these days are the con- tractors and compositors.
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There was another arms raid. Joking apart, isn't it about in Kowloon to-day at 2 a.m. time that one of these Naw Year and/or Birthday Honours was If you want to hear the truth coming Mr. Pollock's way? about the perfect infant, ask
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Talking about Gymkhanas, ly marathon. what about a motor one?
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If they must hang washing out be. on the Helena May Institute grounds. can't they give Us something really chic and dainty?
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From the educational point of view these tests are valuable, we
are assured, because they indle- ate to the car owner exactly what he can get out of his car..
The very slight earthquake
From the social point of view, shock said to have occurred in they indicate to the non-owner Hongkong on October 1st. was what he can get out of other probably due to some one paying peoples' cars. MacWhirter says out of a Studebaker, a cigar out something into his Savings he got a couple of whisky sodas of a Crossfer and a few nuts out of a Ford.
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Just as we were thinking of His Excellency the Governor stopping our daily bath, the has appointed, provisionally and Water Authority announces & were taken in connection with Kowloon Hospital.
subject to His Majesty's pleasure, constant supply of water. the project some, time ago. and.
Kowloon residents were rather Mr. Robert Hormus Kotewall to
At a recent wedding reception what is much more to the point surprised that no reference was be an Unofficial Member of the
made by His Excellency the Gov- Legislative Council.
we saw a man making about $20 the acting Governor, in lastemor to the Kowloon Hospital in
to the gallon.
回 year's Budget speech, went so far the course of his Budget speech. as to say that he considered this There is, in our opinion, need for During the absence of Major The new dancing pumps have
a detailed statement as to how A. $. Littlejohns, D.S.O., bells on them. means of access to the Mount work on this much-needed insti- RAM.C, on
They should duty in North warn the other belles off. Camerun district essential He tution is proceeding. At the end China, Captain R. F. Walker. even declared that if it was fof 1921. it was stated that the M.C.. RAM,C, will carry out The only things that have found desirable to proceed with first portion of the Hospital would the duties of O.C., Military fallen to date in Waichow are a
few bombs, take two years to construct. It Hospital. the work during 1923, the Council was then hoped that the work thewould be put in hand right away,
would be asked to vote
necessary
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It is rumoured that during the SUTH Such was the but there was great delay, and we The Observatory returns for coming months. Dr. Sun will try
believe we are right in saying September show that the average to freeze it out. Government's attitude a year that it was not until the early mean temperature was 81.1, the ago. Now we are told by the part of this year that construc-highest being 90.2 on the 7th. and A saxaphone has disappeared Colonial Secretary that it is tion began. It looks even now as the lowest 73 on the 30th. There from the Peak. Must be a robber questionable whether there is though the project is not to be were 244.8 hours of sunshine and band about.
completed by the end of 1924, for 6.28 inches of rain. The average! ang real demand for the tramwe see the estimates provide for humidity was 73. way. We should say that the even less being spent on the work demand is far greater now than next year than this, and even then the whole vote will not be
The silk forwarded from here
The next great problem before the ladies is how to dress and yet be seen.
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it was twelve months ago, for inexpended. The need for a hos by the .s. Empress of Austalia on! the meantime there has been pital in Kowloon is admitted on the 24th: August arrived on New all the luck it might. The D. P. Even a black cat doesn't bring considerable development of the all hands, even in official circles. York on the 29th. September. in its account of a recent wedding Mount Cameron district.
It is an urgent need, too. We having been 36 days in transit. therefore trust that the Govern- The Australia was delayed in gave the bridegroom's name as The arguments used against ment will soon have it impressed Japan 13 days on account of the
O the proposal-that Europeans upon them that the work must be earthquake. The silk sent for-
An ammunition boat blew up migh: object to the terminus Pushed ahead with greater ex-ward by the Empress of Asia on on the East River the other day. 6th. September arrived in New This must not be confused with York on the 28th, September, having been 22 days in transíl
the presidential boom.
being in Wanchai, and that the
pedition than hitherto,
scheme would involve the re- Military Contribution.
sumption of much built-on pro-
Some ten years ago, a resolu |perty-applied with equal force tion was moved in the
Council a year ago, but they were not Legislative
to the thon considered an obstacle to effect that Hongkong's Military contribution should in no year the scheme. Why should they exceed a million dollars. The
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'Squeeze has indeed got a fearful hold in Hongkong. Some of the competitors at last Sunday's consumption test scoped so low as to even squeeze their tanks!
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We have even heard of une who is already having a rubber tauk constructed and suitably camou flaged for the next trials.
Suppose it all depends on how the spirit moves them!
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We also discovered the height of generosity- man offering to stand his friends drinks at a club of which he was not a member and therefore not privileged to pay.
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What annoyed some of the competitors on Sunday was that they had free spirit but had to economise if they hoped to win.
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Viscount Ednam. M.P., is in a local paper reported to have stated that unless the public throws its weight into the scalea we shall not be able to save the voluntary hospital system which has been the pride of Great Bri tain and the envy of foreign Our fur-bearing flappers will countries for upwards of 400 *pards." Which no doubt accounts for its difficulty in keeping its feet.
Long skirts, they say. are on the wane in Paris. They are mostly on the knock-kneed here. @
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Menfolk are the most wonder- ful things от earth next to women.
The gentleman who made a hole in one at Fanling last week
The Colony is not over-taxied. is not yet quite out of danger.
Gasoline has gone down but it Where is all the money we've has a long way to go to catch up Chief & Petty saved on coal during the hot with the German mark.
Officers.
weather?
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be now? As we have before estimate for 1924 is pat at over A very pleasant evening was appear soon. said, the location of the lower four millions! That does not spent on Friday last at the Chief imply that we are getting a pro- Rooms, Naval Yard, when a
and Petty Officers' Recreation | terminus is not a vital point-portionate increase in our defence billiard match took place between no-one would seriously object to forces: it merely means that our the Garrison Staff Sergeants Mess its being situated in Wanchai so revenue has tremendously grown and the Chief and Petty Officers long as an adequate feeder ser-in the interim, and as the con- Royal Navy. The results were:- tribution is based on twenty per vice was available. The chief cent. of our income, so does the desideratum is an upper terminus amount due to the Imperial Gov which shall make it possible for ernment expand. No-one, of Fritz.
course, objects to paying for Dunnett. people to be taken somewhere defence, but we cannot help think-Crumplin. near their homes. Mr. Fletchering that the system by which the Stroud. appears to think it doubtful whe-vote is obtained is altogether Smith ther the demand for sites in the wrong. It means that when we Dennis..
raise revenue for big works wo Mount Cameron district would have to add a further twenty per be sufficient to justify the cent. thereto in order to pay the expenditure on the suggested increased Military Contribution The billiard match was
It is a very bad system, and weled by a smoking concert. tramway. To that, the answer are hoping that eventually it will A former match, recently play is that already many houses are be abolished in favour of a more ad, between the two teams springing up in the locality, and equitable method of computation.sulted in a win for the latter.
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New York Last time wezważe 150, Mounted Section Orders last there we managed all right, but
week, referring to the forthcom- then we had to pay. 687,ing Beaf Steak Dinner states---- “Dress; clothes optional" Oh, follow-Harold !
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sit in the same chair.
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