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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
1923.
is no reason why arrangements] <? DAY BY DAY. should not be made, possibly through the medium of the Radio
Sociaty, to interent most locali EVERY MAN HAS SOMETHING schools in the movement, We To Do WHICH HE NEO LECTS hear of one school' whase head-EVERY MAN HAS HIS FAULTS TO maater is keen on getting his CONQUER WHICH HE DELAYS TO
COMBAT.~~~ Johnson. students interested in the subject.} believing that instruction there- in would be of distinct value in connection with the school's
Tas Forbes Russell Comedy Co. open their return season to- night, when "The Diggers" will be presented.
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Batts.
We wish to deny the report that We see that somebody thinks a Wednesday's deluge was as big substitute for war should be de s wash out as the recent Budget vised. What about a few more
Kowloon motor-bus races? debate.
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Our friends in Flower Street Many of the Hongkong Univer give it out that the cause of sity students are now working hard flooding in the city was the for their B A-Batting Average.
"Hoyuen is expected, to fall to- day any moment,”says the Conlon Daily News But not nearly so far as Walchow did, we hope.
Needless to say, those dinosaur eggs were found by egg-sperts.
science classes. There is cer- tainty a field here to be exploited. Col W. Blake, C.M.Gbursting of nullahs. We thought. Could not the Radio Society get D.S.O., has assumed command of it was the rain.
from into touch with some of the the troops in China as
The natt burst we go on, we'll November 1st. education people here, possibly
leave water severely alone.
$ }form a junior branch and then. It is notified that the Fall| arrange for elementary demon-Court of thres Judges, will hold strations at regular intervals for its next sitting on Monday, 26th. scholars?
The idea is worth November, at 10.30 am thinking over, at any rate.
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Next March there will be some fifteen Church of England Bishops
Scientists have found eggs six inches long in Mongolia. This should make the Kowloon hens mad.
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in Hongkong for the General vaccination mark on his arm)
Where were you vaccinated? Synod of the Church in China.
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We shouldn't like to hear a dinosaur crowing after laying one of those six-inch
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Dr. Sun wants more money. How about asking his son, the Mayor of Canton, for a small loan of a few millions?
A Telegraph leading article- says:–“We know of several re- sidents who are now on the look- One can rejoice at the prospects: The silk which left here by the of a final settlement of the rexed P. & O. 9.s. Mantua on, the 5th
Many local music-lovers went out for snakes." We also know question of extending the ares in October was delivered in Mar into high fits when Heifetz dis- some others who are trying to which American revenue cutters seilles on the 2nd November,,Strok (e).
appointed them. One even had a Avoid them... can search British vessels for transit of 27 days,
One of these says he BAW & liquor. In return for acknow. ladging the twolve-mile limit,
Mr. Eugene Chen, the bead of green viper at Black's Links. It's Britain is to be permitted to have proved of the appointments of the will soon be ready to fly.
His Majesty the King has ap the Canton Aviation Bureau, also rumoured that a Clubman saw a pink lisardiù Statue Square. liquor on her vessels within
Hon. Mr. H.W. Bird and the Hon. American territorial waters prMr. A. R. Lowe as Unofficial) vided the stutis under seal. This members
of the Legislative understanding between the two
Council. Governments will do away with BAPTISTA. Died at her re-the friction and ill-feeling engen.
His Excellency the Governor sidence 6a, Caine Road, this dered by the American amend- morning at 8 am, Clothilde ments to the law on the one hand has appointed the Hon. Mr. J. H. Maria, beloved wife of Marciano and the evasion of by it certain Kemp K. C. C.B.E, to be a Antonio Baptista Funeral to craft flying the British flag on the Director of the Widows and morrow at 4 p.m. Macau and other. As one New York journal Orphans' Pensions vice late Mr. Shanghai papers please cópy
puts it, the treaty will end two scandals. So far a running is concerned, there Mr. Frederick Mason, the new is no doubt that a great deal organist of St. John's Cathedral, of illicit Equor has found its who is dus here at the end of way into America from British this month, is an Associate of vessels, some of which were the Royal College or Organists, specially chartered for the traffic. and a Licentiate of Trinity Col The game has been a very paying lege of Music, London one, certain individuals in Britain,
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 3rd Nov., 1923.
RADIO IN THE SCHOOLS.
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Mongolis, with six-inch eggs ten million years old, must have been a nasty place for actors.
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It seems appropriate for the King's on the eve of their departure ito do a lot of boxing.
Isn't it about time our Observa- tory officials had a vacation, leav- ing behind them a three months" supply of cold weather predic- tions?
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The Brighter Sabbath move-
The scheme of decoration in ment is well under way. The connection with the Peak Tram Hongkong Government is seeking barrier includes ten golden balls. power to make arrests legal on
couple more and there'd be Sunday:. enough to start four pawnshops.
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The annual meeting of the Boy Scouts Association was held very much behind the scenes.
When the authorities decided having been able to retire on It is notified that, at the ex-| small fortunes after three or four piration of three months, the to turn Happy Valley to its pres- successful trips.
Presumably Pacific Backing and Exchange uses they lost a first-class the difficulty of a shore-boat going Company, Limited will, unless site for a reservoir. out twelve miles for its illegal cause is shown to the contrary. With the widespread growth of cargo, and getting back un-be struck off the register and the interest in wireless, we have no observed, is going to scotch the company will be dissolved.
rum-running game. the three- doubt that before long efforts mile limit having failed. What His Excellency the Governor will be made to include radio an impartial observer immediate-bas, in accordance with instruc- instruction, at any rate to aly realises is that there must tions received from the Secretary
and {limited
powerful
efficient of State for the Colonies, been extent. in the school be a
smuggling system going on pleased to recognise Mr. Jake curriculum. We read in Home ira the Laited States of Ralph Summers as a Vice-Consul papers that wireless is becoming America themselves, else none for the United States of America so popular amongst schoolboys of the contraband booze-or very in Hongkong. that at a recent LC.C. session little of it would
| through. Only the other day we An armed robbery carried out
the Volstead laws.
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Many a Hongkong boy is kept in after school because his father worked his arithmetic wrong.
Hairdressers now say bobbed hair must go. Their cry evident- ly is: "The hair, long may it Wave!"
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We hope those Mongolian dia- coveries won't start a Dinosaur 'Dance."
Theatrical companies coming to Hongkong are hoping the weather will soon be cool enough for audiences to applaud to keep their hands warm.
"Sporting Dogs: Soma Shang- hai Froblems," says a newspaper heading. Some of our young Hongkong pups are also causing us anxiety.
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the lectures for teachers included read a report by the American with a knife occurred just after We hear of a Hongkong girl a course on the elementary prin- Attorney General which disclosed nine o'clock this morning. it who says her fiancee is so stingy ciples of radio, this being given the widespread contravention of being reported that a man was that he reckons out how much it
The Mongolian discovery will by Professor J. A Fleming. Re-possible to suppress this smuggl Des Voeux Road West and rob-
It is im- held up in the staircase of No. 89 costs him per bug. ✪
probably be more important than we thought, because we now very ports also come from schools all ing of liquor in its entirety the bed #277 in Hoogkong and Kwang- A local contemporary ab- over the country that scholars harsher the measures introduced. tung currency.
nounces that the "distinguished nearly know what paleontology
means. pianist Mary Hambourg" is to are evincing a growing interest the more expensive and more. poisonous the supply: but
The Hongkong Amateur Photo-visit the East shortly. We seem both in the study and practice of the supply will always be graphic Society is to hold its an-to have heard of her brother Mark. wireless.
for trink-crazed there
con Dual meeting on the 15th. instant, |sumers. We merely wonder whilst on 17th. the annual dinner So far, Tadio has not been how long the bulk of voters in the will be held in one of the West to keep in the pantry. You can tamed out by the Canton Mint
Tinned soup is a useful thing
developed in Hongkong to the United States will remain blind Point restaurants, when the dis either feed your guests on extent or degree that it has at to facts, and just when it will tribution of prizes won at the re- Home, but that interest in this dawn on them that prohibition cent exbibition will take place.
has been a failure in every way. modern branch of science is Its advocates are suppressing the
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President Tsao is having coins struck with his portrait." Chang Tso Lin bas followed suit. It is rumoured that all future coins
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They seem to have some candid Amongst the passengers who Some Kowloon folk have so well folk in North Borneo. An officia} becoming daily greater is obvious truth, otherwise the whole world left by the P. and O. liner Cal- taken" that their arms are too who was going on leave recently to all. The recent experiments would be in possession of startling edonia yesterday were Sir John sore to wind up the gramaphones. was presented by the natives with an address in English, over which figures showing the almost in- made have shown that there is &numerable evasions throughout architect: Sir T. and Lady Cham
Pity we can't have an anti- much labour had evidently been
It big future for wireless telephony the country, the great expense of bers, Sir John Oakley, Mrs. A.G.M. swank serum. Trouble is, how expended.
expressed their here, and we have not the slight administration of the law. and the Fletcher and children, Mrs. Hever, so many Hongkong people would never be allowed to re- regret at the knowledge the Le est doab: that in a very few st amount of crime and corrupR Buckland, Mr. F. R. Adams, are incurable.
tion directly due to the imposition Mr. Owen Hughes and Mr. E.
teru," and declared "now and years the broadcasting and re-of liquor prohibition and the Abraham.
then we have heard you well ceiving of properly arranged pro- underhand fight being waged
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In the action brought by the seems to have become revived in items and general information,
Singapore United Plantations, some of the Home papers. For Ltd in the Singapore Supreme some years, however, & shipping last Wednesday. will open op a fresh and ex-
The discussion of India's status Court, for $457,488 as the value of company has advertised locally case of Hongkong education being pansive field for business enter in the Empire e: the Imperial their land acquired in connection that its vessels call at Mars," a wash out? prise. The Chinese will, of course, Conference raised issues of great with the Naval Base scheme, the on the way to London.
gravity, and it is regrettable to Court has awarded $214,500. This have to be catered for just as note from the, speeches made is less than the amount originally
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If this sort of thing continues, our next generation will show signs of web-feet.
To-day's Motor Motto: Yes, we have no Gymkhanas.
Which only goes to prove that football boots can go where full blown tyres fear to tread.
"Hongkong is the centre of the
We thought there was some much as Europeans, and we can by most parties to the debate that
offered by the Government | thing wrong with Walchow, is considerable feeling ($225,000.) conceive of a time when, with the there
Eugene Chen didn't even send us on the matter, and no immediate ban on the importation of wire-
a telegram. prospect of a pacific settlement.
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Amid all the gloomy news of bouring cities in China will be aloquent speeches on behalf of It will be realised, thon, that dis-the day there is one bright ray. brought into very close contact their countrymen, and seem to crimination on the score of colour.
have impressed several of the is slight, or non-existent. The A contemporary announces that a world shortage of with Hongkong in this connect Empire statesmen, but Gen. main objection to Asiatics in white there is ion. Apart from the entertain-Smuts sturdily defended the countries has been the difference saxaphones. ing side of radio, wireless is also present and future South African in their social customs and econo- destined to play a big part in policy. It is obviously a matter mic life. A smaller, but ever
of preserving the economic present problem, is the one of cinema advt. Lots of Hongkong ginger trade," says a contempor- commerce in this corner of the ascendancy of a small white po miscegenation. While these ques-people can claim chicane points. ary. What with typhoons and floods, it's certainly been hot stuff world, whilst ite use locally fopulation. In South Africa where tione exist, we fear there is bound
undee folk may be able to lately. times of typhoon, when telephone there are 160,000 Indians feeling to be some ill feeling. That is
is greatest because those of why the conclusion of the Im-make bridies, but they can't play wires are down, will no doubt be European extraction are in a perial Conference debate is so bowls.
minosity to the coloured races of unsatisfactory. Rightly or wrong- the country in Australia, and fly. Indians desira equal status Ponies must be named before Chinese newspaper, No doubt Reverting to students' interest particularly New Zealand, sisa, and full franchise in South Africa, being measured in Hongkong. In this accounts to some extent for in radio, we shall be surprised if to a certain extent, Canada, the and a revision of the Kenys the House of Commons we have the recent change in the political in the near future the Hongkong problem is less acute owing to decision; and they have been known donkeys to be named after complexion of the country University does not instal its the small number of Indian sett-refused both. Knowing what the the Speaker has taken their mea
lers; and in England, where the feeling in India is like, we cannot sure, own receiving set, both for the permanently resident Indians view the future connection of əmə purpose of entertaining the are mere handful, toler India with the Empire as likely new gas helmet has been great that they to be a peaceful one for some invented. Why not try it out in students and instructing them in ance is so
the Edard of Education wireless principles. Indeed, there are elected to our Parliament. little time at any rate,
considerable.
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