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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12 1984.
quire, without their neading to
DAY BY DAY.
Bulls and Inners
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rumour
From the Office Butts.
deny the A fortune awaits the man who that asyndicate inventa abesatos gloves for open- Mr. G.P. de Martin has been of local gentlemen from foe ing Christmas bills,
Inspector of House Street have engaged at
well-known. Indian magician to Some people are said to have give daily demonstrations of the roped in the shekels during the
past week.
abroad. One has only to think of what a recent distin-
TO WISH IS OF LETTERS AC- guished visitor to Hongkong had
COUNT: TO SUCCEED YOU -MUST, to say about the Yangtzza Valley EARNESTLY DESIRE Oud. to realise part of the future possibilities. Though we might THE NEW REMINGTON dispute the statement that appointed
Shanghai has superseded Hong Schools. PORTABLE TYPE-
kang in the position of the WRITER.
world's second busiest port, we It is notified that Mr. M. E. F.famous Rope Trick. can believe that a time is coming Airey has resumed his seat as a member of the Board of Educa- when the mouth of the Yangtaze
tion. will have the biggest port in the world. Stability first, then Police Inspector Blackman and development. is all that China Sergeants McFall and Joy re requires; and stability is coming turned from long leave by the
Mores yesterday. directly the people get tired of broken promises and insist on proper government--and they will gat it yet.
❤STANDARD KEYBOARD.
No Shifting for Agurna.
School Sports.
In sympathy with the remark- What a pity we couldn't have. able rise in share quotations this had our Christmas fun and our week, the price of bowler hats Christmas funds too. has advanced two points.
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A bankrupt musician states be For the same reason, several lost his money through playing
with hot axle boxes.
to play than music.
rickshas have gone into dry dock poker. Poker is evidently harder
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Last Sunday, St. Andrew's There has been added to the list of medical practitioners the were again successful at bowls, name of Dr. Lee Tip-sik, 67, Hai Whilst naturally St. George's did Tan Street, Bachelor of Medicine best on water. of the Chiba Medical College, Japan.
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not appear on the menu at tiffin. annual report of the Headmaster There will be sold on January MUSTARD & Co. of Yaumati School which com-28, at the P.W.D. offices. Inland It is estimated that a vocabul- pelled our attention and created Lot 2429. situate in Conduitary of 800 words is sufficient for within us a measure of disappoint- Road. It has an area of about all purpuses, excepting of course ment at the fact related. This 38,500 square feet and the upset in the case of the man who sold was to the effect that as the price is $29,875.
Ropes the day before the rise District Schools" sports and the
began. Hongkong Schools' Football League had been discontinued,
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HONGKONG, W2th Jan., 1924.
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There is very significant feature about the visit of the Chinese Industrial Mission
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A fall from the first floor into the Yaumati school had had no the backyard caused serious in- opportunity during the year of juries to a Chinese living at No. taking part in inter-school com-216 Queen's Road Central. yester- paritions. We know nothing of day. He died after removal to the circumstances which have led the Government Civil Hospital. to the abandonment of these
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the Sale of Food and Drugs O- During the part year, under dinance, there were examined 57 samples of milk and one each off tea, flour, bread, lard and coffee, all being genuine cxcepting three
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Old sayings modernised-It is easier for a fat man to find a seat in our tramcars nowadays-than for him to push his way through Brokers' Alley at noon.
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following local football result Circus has left for London.
Marazion, 6; Seared Heart, O."
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A contemporary announces the arrival or the steamship Garlic Prince."
People who bad manicure sets given them for Christmas now have time to wonder what all the funny looking little things Bre for.
The ringmaster was entertained to dinner on Wednesday.
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German shoes are said to find a slow market. Who wants to be in Germany's shoes, anyhow?
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Although the sensational rises on the Hongkong Rialto bave been welcomed in some quarters, we understand that local business men interested in woollens are looking for a fall in thermometers.
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An aviator was arrested for become restricted. The benefits of Champkin, Mrs. Penty cross, Mr. Aging when intoxicated. A few onidoor recreation to young G. . Orme and Mr. P. C. Potts.drinks send some of our local Chinese are obvious. They bave
lads up into the air. been demonstrated very pointedly since natives of the Colony have
Mr. A.E. Wood is to act as Quite a number of Kowloon taken ap Western sports. It is Secretary for Chinese Affairs and doormats have bad the "Wel true that such exercise is still Registrar of Marriages, during come" sign worn off during the available, but in addition to this Mr. Hallifax's absence during last two weeks. aspect, there is another the which time he will be a Member escaped the notice of most com- of healthy rivalry in the Geld of Council. mentators, but is indicated by school. It is this spirit which sports as between school and the head of the mission, Mr. tends to make lads proud of Chang Chien, in his speech at their particular school. and the Federation of British Indus-induces them to strive their best to uphold its traditions. There- tries luncheon. It amounts to fore it is a pity that anything this China is gradually becom should occur to kill such 2 of milk. ing independent of the West for spirit. We hope that those directly concerned in the her supplies of manufactured
question will make it their Command Orders' notify that articles, such as cotton goods, business to endeavour to bring Bdr. W. Gavins, $5 Co., R.G.A.. and will, in time, be in a position about a revival of past facilities relinquished the appointment of acting Garrison Provost Sergeant
A London specialist says that to compete with the other in.in this particular regard.
on 1st. January. and Sgt. E. the human race is becoming very dustrial nations in the world's Canton and Opium. Puttock, of the East Surreys be- fat. Hope it won't develope into
a balloon race. markets. With its vast resources If the facts were not known to
comes G.P.S.
Mah-Johng promises to provide the American people with an ex- of comparatively cheap labour, be otherwise, one might almost
Many hot-headed folk in cuse for wasting time after the the country only requires peace, there is an anti-opium movement. that D.
be forgiven for imagining that It is reported from Canton Brokers' Alley now have cold feet. golf courses close up.
Sun Yat-sen has and the ability to pay its way, to backed up by the Government, decided to levy another month's become the big manufacturing in progress in Canton. The rent from
property £0 mest centre of the East, and a rival of newspapers contain a deal of military expenses. A proposal brows.
roatte: relating to the establish has also been made for the ment of a so-called "Anti-Opium | imposition of an 'income tax and Office," created by Dr. Sun Yat-a tax on signboards. sen. Mention is made of the appointment of Tupan at the head of this new body, together;
Ropes are strong this woek. possibly want, and might spell with a number of assistants, ember how that the average From the odour in Brokers" Alley, Lots of people are finding that disaster to British concerns which amongst whom we notice several mean temperature was 64.3, the some of them must have been ropes Lare even now finding it difficult military commanders. If the full highest being 79.8, on the 27th, used as cigars. to keep going. We might have this organisation were
facts concerning the functions of and the lowest 48. on the 31st. There were 145.2 hours of sun- made
In view of the phenomenal rise If we have a Brokers' Ball," the enlightening sight of cheap known, it would most probably be shine and 0.315-inch of rain. The in Ropes, what offers for our the most popular fox-trot_tune
office ball of twine ? Chinese-made goods capturing discovered that it has something average humidity was 71.
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A Paris beauty specialist advocates ice, es a "beautifier. "Keeps flesh warm" she says! Makes ours creep.
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to do with the funds whichare to be the Home market. China has
procured from the new monopoly all the iron and coal she can which is to take over the opium Eucharist at St. John's Cathedral for a couple hours said to his The music at the Choral As the Cockney fireman ashore require to smelt her own ores, trade. There is certainly no or Sunday at 8 a.m. will be as mate: "Wot's all this 'ere crard o' and build her own machinery: attempt being made to suppress follows: Introit Hymn 208, billycocks so excited abart?" she has cotton and silk, open to clear, despite names being given to Hymn 320, Ablutions Hymn 551, opium-smoking; that fact is quite Offertory Hymn 35, Communion improvements in culture
Prohibitionists claim that the and organisations which would create Recessional Nunc Dimittis Tonus road to Hell is paved with whisky great expansion in the future: such an impression. It is com Peregrinus, Service: Merbecke. bottles. Suppose the road to the and she has an immense hard-mon knowledge that the military in Canton and the Yunnanese
other place is bordered with working population ready to put in particular-are greatly inter-
sundaes. It is notified that His Honour their shoulders to the big wheel ested in the revenues derived the Chief Justice has ordered of State directly unity of ad-from the opium trade, but for that the next Criminal Seesions For all that.. we should say which it is doubtful if they would shall be held on Monday, the that Hongkong will be responsible effected-and be where they are. There is a 21st. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for e fair stretch of paving. that must come sooner or later. lot of cant and humbug boing This notice does not refer to The present generation may not spread abroad just now in regard Jurors who have been instructed
to the Canton Government's to attend on Monday, the 14th we are wrong. Quite a lot of witness the big shifting of the attitude to the opium trade. But instant. world's industrial power from people who know the facts are not West to East, but it is almost likely to be deceived thereby,
ministration" be
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THE RAID ON NAM PING.
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whisky bottles don't leave Hong- kong. Somebody told them the The Billiards League final was story of the widow's cruse. commenced at the V.R.C. last
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night, the finalists being the But for that "Yes no banana " there will, in that future time, bel
Catholic Union Club and the song. America would have pro- Chinese Club. The former won bably voted 1923 a success. fully qualified Chinese experts;)
all three games and now have a man of the calibre of those who
lead of 750 to 533. Mr. L. A have already founded prosperous writes that a later report from break of the evening.
Our Macao correspondent Osmund made 40. the highest steel-works, cotton-mills, and the village of Nam Ping states tobacco factories, despite the that more than 200 men raided the place. They arrived in
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will probably be Cut Your- self & Length of Rope and Get Yourself & Home.”
Hongkong is to have more taxis. We're glad they spell it' with an "i."
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girls were too ornamental Per- haps this explains why they do not stay on the shelf very long.
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Lighting three cigarettes with one fnatch or stepping off & moving tram backwards is bad Jück.
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While hundreds of thousands of dollars are given by the Govern- ment to our University, the Board of Education must not even dis- cuss the salaries of our school teachers.
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A New York Citizen recently applied tor .a divorce on the ground that his wife was inces- santly humming. Had his neigh- There is no truth in the story. His many friends here will bour been a jazz drummer we that Ice House Street, was the
handicaps they have had to face about a dozen long row-boats; regret the departure of Mr. G. W. suppose he could have been said. centre of our recent seismic dis
There are always men going and easily overpowered the Barton, a partner of Messrs. to lead a humdrum existence. out into the world to learn the village guards owing to their Douglas, Lapraik and Co., who
superior numbers and up-to-leaves to-day for Home by, the latest methode-just as the pre-date weapons, which included .s. Khive. Failing sight com-between having no tifins and We'd hate to be a broker, what sent mission in Europe is acquir machine guns. The houses in the pels his retirement after a con- then sitting up all night to bal ing information-and even now south-western part of the village, nection with the East of some ance gains against losses. the country is in possession of numbering 70 or so, were sacked, thirty years, first with E. W. and 58 persons were kidnapped. Frazer and Co. of Kobe and later educational institutions capable The robbers returned to their with his present firm. He has of imparting all the knowledge boats with a form of military served at various coast ports in
this period. progressive students might re-band playing ahead of them,
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You can always tell when Christmas is over. Friende are not quite so polite.
turbances.
theory that any brokers shake But that does not dispose of the in bed at night.
They're going to tax sing-song girls in Canton. Suppose those affected will make quite a song about it.
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