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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1923.
jonly, and the enormous amount of detail work at present handled by this officer should be carried Jout by his senior assistants, each
DAY BY DAY.
THERE ARE MORE REAL OP- PORTUNITIES TO-DAY THAN of whom should have charge of THERE ARE REAL MES.-Cedeman |
his own department and have Cur. considerably increased powers:
Bulls and
Inners
From the Office Buits.
There is no truth in the story that Mr. Tse Tsan Tai will ae- company the Fourth Asiatic Ex.
and responsibilities. Such AD The Gazette gives a revised pedition to the Gobi desert in arrangement would tend to ax-schedule of allotments of re-1925. pedite the carrying out of public creation grounds. Cworks and should remove the
New
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Caramels,
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FOSS & Co's. Chocolates I lb.
VERY FINEST QUALITY,
Fuller's Almond Fudge, Chocolate Caramels
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
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Years* Guarantee
RIANDS
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
MEN'S WEAR DEPARTMENT.
EARLY AUTUMN WEAR.
Spells of uncertain weather are 50 prevalent during October that consideration
in respect of Early All- tumn Wear is an urgent
is necessity if one properly equipped to with-
to be
stand all weather vagaries.
Lane, Crawfords
HAVE A FINE SELECTION
of Seasonable * Underwear, Hoslery, Pyjamas, Shirts Dress- ing Gowns and Overcoats, which will be worthy of in- spection.
A very fine range of Foot- wear is also available coupled with an exceptionally attractive selection of Lincoln and Ben-
netts Hats and Caps.
LANE, CRAWFORD
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present delay experienced in jobtaining Government sanction for the erection of buildings. sanitary works, etc.
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Tenders are being invited for erection of railway traffic staff quarters at Blackhead's Point.
Tha Canadian Paritie bave MGovernment would have a body opened an office in the Imperial of senior technical assistants Hotel, Tokyo and a branch office each accustomed to the con- in Yokohama. Ptrol of a department, and of tried
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administrative powers, from which to select fature Directors and Assistant Directors if Public: Works, as required. ." The Neply of the Officer Administer-
Peak tram passengers are now requested not to so the back seats whilst Chinese houseboys are waiting for a chance to got to the top
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The drawback in broadcasting to some people is that they can't listen to their own voices.
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Ladies, to the number of 150, are competing in the Annual Rifle Shoot of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. Now we know why all the animunition is being smuggled into the Northern port.
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A wag suggests that the Dow What between the really President of China has met with nice" people and the coolies, Maya Chibli reception. Road residents want to know thought he was Yunnan-imously
But where they come in.
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Mr. Fletcher thinks the con- While we like the idea of an Conditions of the resumption of munity have gat into the habit of automatic postage meter, we'd parcels mails between Hongkong unnecessarily crying "Wolf!" in prefer something that would and Germany, as from November connection with police matters, cause our coolie messengers to re- 1st., are given in the Gazette. Who else should they call for gister oftener.
Mr. A. Dyer Ball. Assistant! ing the Government (Sir Claud Attorney General, has been ap Severn) was: "As regards the pointed editor of the new edition Yreorganisation of the Public of the Ordinances of the Colony.
Works Department advocated by j the Senior noticial member,
17, Connaught Road, Central,
Tel. 1156
BIRTH.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 20th Oct., 1923.
P.W.D. REFORM.
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Prize fighting is said to be
anyhow?
The two new parsons due in charged at Shanghai recently as a make-weight on the wheel of Two Russian Women were Kowloon this winter should help
with theft of silk from Chinese jazz. shops, which it was alleged they hid under their skirts. According Passengers departing by the to a contemporary, When Serg there is no doubt that that would Yoshino Maru included Sireused nothing of a discriminating inspected the house of the ar- John and Lady Randles, M. E nature was found therein." be a very proper thing to do. ItGrant Smith and Mrs. W. is a question which will soon Jackson. come under the consideration of
$11,530.
We want Lowa-r prices - for drinks in Hongkong
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healthy exercise. We should say was counting his share of the that the only exercise Beckett got
profits.
We see that Canton has a new Director of the Mint. We wonder if he knows anything about "juleps".
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A Government Official's report is the last place in which one looks to find humour, except, sometimes. of the unconscious variety.
A report of typhoon damage on Government property received the other day, however, contain- ed the Following: "Motor shed liable to go down anytime this last two years, has now dis- charged its liability."
the Government. It has already Inland Lot 2446, situate on the heen spoken of, and I am sure new road from Bowen Road to Thursday's Hill Climb knocked something of the kind will be Wong Nei, Cheong Gap, and spots off the recent event
having an area of about 50,150] Shaukiwan. It is calculated that necessary. If we have the har
square feet, is to be sold on Nav-¡583.941 Chinese took part. BLAKE-At the Government bour developments anticipated it ember 5th. The upset price is Civil Hospital, on the 19b. in:will certainly be necessary to to Mr. and Mrs. M. Blake, al
keep that as a separate depart daughter.
ment, and it will possibly bel
A correspondent writes tis sug. the full distance of twenty rounds. necessary to keep the water de gesting that inasmuch as about!
80 per cent, of the shares in the A telegraph office being con- partment as a separate depart Oriental Cotton Spinning and templated in Sainam. bogus ment. It is not a very easy sub- Weaving Co., Ltd., are held in Presidents will be in closer touch with their Kwangtung constitu- ject to tackle. but it is one. I¡ Hongkong, the appointment of a think, which will have to be would be welcomed.
local man to serve on the Board
faced very soon."
Entries for the Navy League Ball close on Noveraber 3. That was
a year ago. Since Members of the Craigengoweri
O then, we understand, there has Cricket Club will be at home to We're getting on. A few days been some kind of private com- their friends to-morrow (Sunday) ago a letter came to us address
at 3 p.m. when the prizes won at ed:-"The Hon. Editor, Hongkong On perusal of all that was said mission to consider the question the cricket. tennis and lawn Telegraph." If this sort of thing on the reubject of the Public of reorganisation. So far as we bowls competitions will be dis- continues, we shall begin enter Works Department during the know, however, nothing has de-tributed. There will be a jazz taining hopes of being made a
real J.P. one day. Budze: debate on Thursday, we finitely been arcomplished to-| are left with the impression that Wards the end aimed at in the
Hongkong Radio Society seems A man armed with a revolver to have been suffering from there was an avoidance of some tentative suggestions made byl
entered No. 80 Temple Street in statics lately. of the more vital issues of the Mr. Parr. The reorganisation of the early hours of this morning. A controversy. The chief Unofficial departments will, or should. in concubine, who lives on the
Mr. Pollock says Hongkong One or twa taipans we know Įdemand seems to have centred
all-round increases ofground floor, was bound and on an increase of staff, and the staffs, particularly in the more fagged, and a pair of bangles and has been going to the bad steadi would raise Cain if a hair appear-
ly since 1917. her ear-rings were taken from Home papers will note that this seem
We hope the ed in their soup, but they don't Official view of this appears to junior and less technical rank her. The value of the haul is set only refers to the P.W.D.'s in- when dancing.
to object to mouthfulls have envisaged onfy the incres-On the whole, we consider that at $8. called for by the effect of the the Government's replies in this land boom on the building office. matter of an enlarged P.W.D.1 If is remarkable that such mat.have not been at all convincing. ters an increased road con-truc- tion, harbour development, water-
volve
works, and Government buildings New Peak Tramway.
seem to
band in attendance.
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Suppose some asset it down this way without thinking.
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"Restless Nights in Nanning. Music at 2 Buddhist Nunnery" is the caption to an article in a Sorthern paper. Quite so.
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ability to spend money.
In these stirring times, one bas The Governor-in-Council' has
Recent event indicate that to keep going round if he expects ordered that the duration of the Berlin is still on the
Spree. to have any time at all. rights, powers and privileges !granted under the provisions of A Singapore contemporary Doctors say that we eat too fast. the Rope Company's Tramway: gives the programme of eighteen but we should be able to keep it Ordinance. 1901, and the Rope latest fox trots to be played at a down if we bolt it.. One refreshing aspect of Thurs-Company's Tramway (Revival) supper dance there. The list does have receited scanti
disclose our overworked One Yacht Club bowler ro- motive. The Colonial Secretary, day' Badger debut was the Ordinance. 1913, shall be extend not
statement by the Colonial Secreed for a period of one fear friend of recent weeks, so we marked last Saturday that it was in his reply as criticisms, gavetary of the Government's inten- from 35th. December 1923.
can ame that the plantain 20 odd years since he had eaten the land with pride of place, andtion to arrange for a new tram-.
crop in the South is meeting a potato scont. The Yacht Club indicated that it was a condition way which will skirt the hillsides,
all requirements. An Ordinance to confer certain
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indented for the P.W.D. but he being made to the P.W.D. staff have it so planned that cars case of certain offences relating fashion. We saw several worn and why?
of Garden Road, and the idea is arrest without warrant in the
did not disclose how many men Coats must be coming into resigned during the past year would meet the legitimate de-can leave at any time, one follow chiefly to the stealing and dam at the bowls matches last week. mand on that department's ing the other. In this respect it aging of trees and other plants.: will be a big improvement on the The power of arrest is, by the energies. So much for the mere
From His Excellency's remarks existing tramway, which cannot definition of the term forest officer, question of size of staffs, but a run a
Mr. Lowe says he would prefer it would appear that the Hon'ble service oftener than a given also to the Superintendent, put his money on the Hong Lowe really attends Council for bigger matter, that of reorganisa-seven-minute interval. Inasmuch tion of the whole department. this tramway can eventully Supervisor, and also to any per: Kowloon moke come in?"
Assistant Superintendent
kong colt rather than the Queens the fun of the thing land horse. Where does the be extended to Wanchai Gap, son assisting any forest officer. seems to have been overlooked.
Seems to be room there for the if necessary, we are inclined
imposition of an amusement tax. We are surprised that the Un-to agree with Mr. Fletcher
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D officials did not bring this matter that it is a better idea than! prominently forward, for it was the other suggested schemes Ther main need, H we have often! only a year ago that it formed an pointed out, is to provide some Bakers and Confectioners Ex-ary: The bride, wore a three known cat-like creature which Sheriff Studd. who opened the From a Northern contempor- found a cave containing an un- important theme of the Budget means of transport for people] discussion. Let us dip into the living out on the eastern side of hibition at the Royal Agricultural piece costume of raje au loit plunges into the water with a
Hall, London, alluded to
He also Peak, which is rapidly!
the marocain, with a bit hat, and noise like a rhinoceros. developing. The new scheme will marked diminution in the con- carried a shower bouquet of ten saw giant frogs, and myriads of swimming bats and fresh-water On October 28th. last year the provide such a service, and it will sumption of bread, remarking roses.
that the matter was sufficiently
prawns which danced on the rocks, Unofficials of that time delivered admittedly be far more conven-
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อ ient to have the lower terminus serious to suggest the advisability their criticisms of this year's at Garden Road than in Wanchai. of a big "eat "more bread" cam-
An almost perfect description. Budget. On the motion for the Presumably.
We've seo them too, but it wasn't the project will
paign.
in Assam. second reading of the Supply depend on the settlement of the Bill. the Hon. Mr. E.V.D. Par we trust that every effort will be are insuperable. Wooden lids lady to Hongkong was entirely
| military lands question, and if so, traversed its provisions in some made to expedite the solution of may be too heavy, but it ought due to The call of the Yeast." detail, referring, incidentally to at any rate a sufficient part of to be possible to devise others the satisfactory position of the that question to enable this work which are not. As for tarpentins Colony's finances." When he delay.
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These new fashions become more satisfying every day.
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It is rumoured that the recent visit of a certain charming young
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to be pushed on without undue taking too long to adjust, we Sir Robert is still sawing away
cannot see that time is any great at that round table business, came to the P.W.D.. he had the
factor when the carts are once following to say about reform of The Stink Carts-
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A Calcutta doctor says while on a visit in the Assam hills he
has reached his 99th year. He A village postmaster at Home
can still read the postcards with- out assistance.
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"5,000 Mugs for Sale." saya a newspaper heading. We hope filled up. At any rate. it is by What Hongkong needs is a law our pet aversion is amongst them. that department "In view of ļ We are rather disappointed at no means in keeping with the requiring all drink bills to be sent the large amount of money the Government
admittedly clean condition of the in anonymously.
Seems to use the members of the question of providing Colony to see these carts full of That noise heard on the radio the Hongkong Philatelic Society expended on public works, we the Colony's refase carta garbage being pulled through the from Canton must be some of should stick together more. are of opinion that further with Fome means of cover-main streets of the city, as they Sun's theories exploding reorganisation of this departing by which the nuisance cansed are every day. Neither can it be ment is desirable. The duties by these evil-smelling vehicles good for the public health. At
of the Director
of
Works should
be
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We shall not see so much of for the exchange brokers, they may be abated. There may be Home, such a method of refuse Public difficulties in the way, but we removal would not be tolerated, the women now that the bathing seem to have a wonderful hold
is over.
on the yarn market. advisory certainly cannot see that they Surely it can be obviated here.
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