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They say red sun is a storni The Idou of our Government WILL HELP YOU REACH YOUR Analyst testing poisons, on him warning. This may account for self is not to bo commended. Ono the fears in some quartors of Dr."
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the strnete. In course of time, gestion by the parking of cars on Hongkong may even come to that; but not yet awhile, for no DESTINATION, doubt ample provision for some
Mr. F. Mason, the Cathedral of those days something wil! Bun becoming a Bolshio.
happen and a souro. of good years ahead will bo nado for the
They koop digging up old oggs organist, la arranging a rosital of
and Egyptian kings, but wo'ro storing of care as necessity do-appropriate music for Good Fri-nowspaper "copy" go west.
Besides, the thoory is likely to woudering how we are going to. mands. There can be no doubt, day.
spread. One of those days we dig up the price of a topao. however, that by dogroom many
Mr. D. E. G. Nicholson has shall have our Colonial Secretary-
Sooms to us that instead of pay- of our old business blocks will be hoen appointed Hon, Troasuroriving in a cubfolo in order to Opulled down, to make way for for the Poak Church in succes-obtain first-hand Informationing good money to watch a couple of boxera, it would pay us bettor othere of a more modern and sion to Mr. P. Jacks.
Yos. It doorn't always follow to hire thom for piracy prevon- toomy charactor.
Tendors are being invited for in order to poso as an authority tion, tho extension of pump pit to ac-on anything that personal ox- commodato additional pumping porionco is necessary. plant at Tytam Pumping Station.
For instance, we need not he Eastor is fairly lato this year, und consideration, of a movable! Dr. Sun Yat-sen has appointed abip to iny an egg in order to festival like this brings us back Loa Yi-chi as Chiof Justice of know & bad one when we mool it. A to the old question of whether our the Supremo Court and Chief of
calendar cannot be reformed. the Judicial Administration The pain of soro hoad whisky with advantage to all concerned. concurrently,
isn't mado any casier by reflecting on its cost. The calendar we follow to-day is
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It seems to us that no matter how expensyo it in to live here, i is always worth more.
We are advised, "to
Bount twenty-five bofore thinking of The Hongkong Golf Club has lighting, but some of theseboxeri
notico rogarding who come to Hongkong think of.
still something of a makeślilit, Mr. A.. G. W. Ticklo and Mr. and in these coinmorcial times H. J. Poarco hava boon appointed cut and dried almanack is very to act on behalf of the Building issuod Ydesirable. We can ho thankful
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at least that we have a fixed New Authority in connection with "attached" ladies. The mischief a much higher figuro, Year's Day, and if any proof dangerous, buildings. bo required of what trouble
is that many of those are not quite so attached as they might
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« changing New Year would mean, thore is the Chinese euch fined $2 by the Harbour
On the other hand, quite a example before us. It is bad Master this morning for obstruot
Eastern Fairway, numbor are more than they enough to have an odd day'overy
ought to be. four years, inasmuch as it requires Yaumati Bay, yesterday. special calculation; but othor-
sixty Dospite his The master of the Cunarder wiso our ordinary division of the Wife of i. S. Hills of 29, The year is a workable one. When Samaria which arrived in port residence in the Colony, Hong we come to movable feasts, how-this morning reports the death kong's "G.O.M." still Goes on. ever, it is a matter for surprise during the voyage of two malo Morrily. that anomalies should be suffored passengers from dysentry. to oxist. With Eastor a recognis-
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"You might say that a honpack- od man is a man with his nerve in his wife's name.
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The reason Home Hongkong". girls aro navér kissed is booruse Tho Traffic Suporințondent of they never keep their mouth shut Squadron Leader C, F. Gordon, the Tramway Company can, on long enough. ed holiday, business interests aro closely concerned in the inter-O.B.E.,. M.C., D.F.C., RA.F., pro- retirement after twenty years' vention in their routine which it coeded on six months leave of service, bo said to have run a CaUXUR. Good Friday is as much absenco to the United Kingdom, good course.
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There's talk of this summer's. drosmes baing shortor. Mosquitoes will be glad to hear it. , 0)
Last summer, the skeetors wero restricted to arms and necke, which provided vory poor pickings.
Those bands of piratas still keep busy, but nothing is over done to the jazz fiends down our a holiday as Christmas Day-and by the Empress of Russia.
Motor Note: Closed autos in street. we find the latter fixed whilst the
bocoming The mooting to forni the pro-Hongkong aro CHANGING HONGKONG. former is not. With due respect
to the Church, we would point posed Hongkong Forfarshire As-popular as closed mouths. out that the one is an apparent sociation is to be held on Monday, especially for moonlight rides. The striking building of which date for colebration of the birth the 14th inst, instead of Friday,
Now that we are taking off our we yesterday published a sketch of Christ, whilst the latter marks the 11th inst., as previously ad-
If vertised.
underwour, the times aren't sö ticklish. showing what the proposed Ern-our mourning of His death. press Hotel will look like, serves us date be fixed-as it was for
convenience-then why not the The road commencing at tho
Those Cooke Street tenants to illustrate the panner in which other also? All the containing Pokfulam Road, passing through the city of Victoria is gradually festivals that are calculated from the Dairy Farm property, cross-kopt the district in hot water for having added to it a series of Easter Day would similarly being Victoria Road and continuing a few days,
come fixed, and, we venture to really fine business structures think, would do much to eliminate on as far as R.B.L. 160 is to bo
known as Sassoon Road,' befitting 11 commercial contre some of the bothersome aspects such as Hongkong Situate on of Christendom's partition of the
Command Orders notify that calendar. Whon the last drastic
Assistant Commissary and Lieut. the waterfront, it will be a most changes were mado, in the Imposing landmark. It will, how-eighteenth century, the public. W. E, Davidson, L.A.SC., on ever, be only one of many other (despite some disapproval at first) retirement from the service with to realise their effect from 1st April. is struck off fine buildings contemplated or in speedily came
advantage. In these far more the strength of Command. course of construction. Visitors onlightoned days the mood for to our shores have always boon further reform must be clear to impressed by our big blocks of everybody who has given the
matter due thought. Death Penalties...
It is notified that, at the expira tion of thee months, the Metropole
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It is rumoured that a now local revue will bo "The Marah Past"
The problem. as to whore the by the Ice House Street buttalion.
flies go. In winter is about as What we are out for is share serious as determining the pro- quotations at a fixed figure in sant whereabouts of those who order to avoid an excess of used to sing about bananas. mathematics in our sparo' mo-'
The most affective way to argue monts.
with your wife is to kiss her.
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"No more secret treaties," says Wars unloss cause is shown to the con- Nowadays the lawyers soom to Mac. We wonder how trary, be struck off the Rogister be getting the upper hand. Of started in the days before diplo and the Company will-bo-die- the two avila, it is hard to choose. masy was invented.
Trading Company, Limited will, chiefly, peopled by Scotsmen..
solved...
offices, whilst those who know Hongkong in other times and have recently returned to it buvo With the ravived discussion in
If Canton doesn't watch out it been astounded at the progress (and out of) Parliament of the death penalty in the Services, one
His Excellency the Governor will be full of brothers without which has been made in the can the more readily examine the erection of new and imposing subject of capital punishment as has, in accordance with instruc-brotherliness.
"Piracy Nerves" aren't al structures during the past your an institution of the law of civilistions received from the Secretary or two. A big change is hoing countries. There will always be of State for the Colonies, hoen
advocates of the capital santenes, pleased to recognise Mr. Maurice together confined to the water- made in the appearance of Fed-but we think modern thought is Walk as a Vice-Consul for the front: dor Street and Quoot's Road by beginning to realise more and United States of American in the new A.P.C. building and the more that justice need not at all Hongkong.
extorsive block which has arison on the site of the Old Post Offico. Then we have tho. now P. and O. offices getting well forward to wards completion; the now Bank
times be remoreless; and at bost a life for a life is u brutal survival of the moret form of the old
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If some of the people in Kow- loon don't improve" with thair. music, we don't see how they're going to manage a harp by and by.
Church bazaars have been dos-. cribed as a means of getting. money for nothing." They are means of getting frequently a nothing for your money.
If.fower people were trying to savo China she wouldn't be so for spont.
The Government's attitude on piracy prevention rensinds us of how much wo care' a cuss about the other fellow's toothache.
Under the Sale of Food and
In Hongkong the baseball fan "All is quiot just now along the Drugs Ordinance, during the first {Kw. Mosaic
arter of the year there were and the electric fan generally Education front.
St. George. had a mailed flat. indeed unfurtunate that in some, -xamined four samples of fresh come back. together. countries the feu of death and milk, two of condensed milk, two we see it in China-is the only of coffee and one each of sterilised: The taxation problem in Canton but MacPherson a tight ong, of China building: the extension deterrent to cartain claseos of milk ham and groen peas. All is about to be solved for the
The Cous method as applied to Canton :' Every day in every made to the promises of the criminals; yet humanity domands were genuine save the sample of second time this month.
that we look at things to-day sterilised milk.
You may not chuckle at this way, we're getting debtor and Hongkong and Shanghai Barik from a different angle than that
The Colony has its last chance one, but all the same you'll admit dobter." the new Bank of Canton building favoured oven by our grandpar- which is going up close at handouts: Little more than a century this evening of seeing a picture that to do so is preferable to, the proposed Hongkong Realty ago they burnod "witchos" at which many people here considor worrying.
the stake in Britain; 'up to a later the most delightful that has over!
to Hongkong-namoly. "Hongkong's winter has boen Company's fino block date they hanged miserable pick-come the sultantial promises, known pockets; and the death penaltyPotash and Perlmutter." This described as "springliko" by a He must have boon comody, with the
visitor. B5 Stophons Building, on for shoop-stoaling is a matter still admirablo the site of the old Victoria within the momory of the very original stage actors playing the watching Kowloonitos jumping
on the Ferry! old generation of our day. Now loading parts, will be shown at Thontro; the now. Government we only have capital punishment the Star Theatre to-niglit, after
The way some of those To offices which are being erected for murder: and sometimes, in which it will not appear hore
words of
period, again...
porters butt in, they might have the nour the Central Market; and the
an excess of goat glands. too good
official com-ja According to numbers of other blocks of a for the callous monsters of whom
received from tho modern type which are springing ono occasionally hears. Yet oven munique
But, on the other hand, they've into being here and there., More in their case, modern science Headquarters of the Forces in schemes are in the air, so that by indicates that they night not be Shoklung issued on Wednesday got to earn their bread and
wholly responsible-novertheless evening, General Chan King-butter. degrees the main business controla disoased mind of such dangor is ming is withdrawing his forces
A Home politician wants an of the city is being completely bost out of way. What we should from the East River district to robuilt, skyscrapers taking the like to soo, however, is the death Southern Fukion to prevent enquiry into the origin of the Wishing we had something wo penalty so hedged about with Gonoral Chang Chi-ping's Fukion Groat War. If this sort of thing can't afford or wishing we hadn't place of less commanding build-restrictions as to be pronounce forcos from marching into the is tartod, we shall want to spent so much last month...
dis know who knitted those, BOCKS, ings which have done duty for able only on special occasions. Chagchow and Moision
who, first thought of plum and many a long your..
Who, for instance, would place a tricts.
apple jam, who get the algarettes, man who kills his wife's Boducor
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes and who won the war.. Those aro,
outward and in a noment of passion, or oven tangible signs of a healthy státe a surviving party to a suicido Smith are passing through.or of affairs, and they show that pact, on a par with tho fiend who the P. and O. Khyber. Mr. Bowes London twins claim to bo
butohers a defenceless old woman Smith has resigned his position the oldest in the world. the Colony, is forging steadily for her fow shillings? Public with Mossrs. David Sassoon and man is 86, so that makes his her too much, boosuse she may ahoad. When the military lands opinion on the subject can be Co. and in later returning to twin sister-60.
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on Queen's Road are available gauged by tho favourable recop- Hongkong to establish himself as
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Just when the compradore thinks wo..dan make ends most, he shifts them.“
The dead sure thing often fails to come to life.
We don't know which is worst:
One reason why some people cannot find time for work is that there are so many other thinga to.do.
You can always tell a good The stenographer, but you mustn't tell
not always be good.:
Bathing note It is better to The number of Kowloon folk
woll formed than well not killed by buses
for commercial purposon, during the past few years ospeol with Mr. J. E. Josoph. Hongkong no doubt that further ally. We live in on age where will be glad to welcome back additions will be made to our big thore is an increasing desire to such a capable musician as Mr. informe commerejal buildings, We notice soe justion tempered with mercy. Bowes Smith is.
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