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TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Daily Tonto

By ROBERT POWER.

READY FOR SERVICE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

STONING POLICE.

TWO BOY'S PUNISHED. Two young, Chinese boys, ap-| peared as defendants before Mr.} E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on aj

"Sho's in good running order" disoasó, but thousands are "bo-charge of throwing stones at on Buys the driver with pride, as he low par" in health because of the Indian constable. survoys his engine and waits for noglect of simple rules. To take Dofeudants pleaded not guilty. tho signal to fall Ilo knows no exercise, neglect the virtues) Inspector Ogg told his Worship that in every part she has boon of cold water, systematically to that this offence was becoming a cared for and that when he gets overeat and to drink too much-frequent occurance at Hungbom.. the "right away she will haul these are violations of Nature's Chinose were continually throw the long train with onse along laws and thoy cannot be under-ing stones at policemen whenever

Lakon with the sluing track.

impunity. The they had occaslon to arrast, or Caro of our bodios- means physical machine slows down. caution anybody in the streets. simple health hygiene without The footsteps drag along the path The constable, in ovidoneo, said fade. It is our duty to look after of life, because the machine is that whilst he was telling a fonulo hawkor that she was those' wonderful machines which not in running order. day and night are at our service. It is Imperative that we should not permitted hawk in Kun Thoro is no nuut to pamper thom preserve our health in Season. Yum Street, the joye throwstones any more than we should neglect The physical state weighs with at him."

wanted.

thom. Health sanity is what is extraordinary power upon the The Magistrale, romarking? mind-and-affects_its_notions that-it-was-a-ense-for-corporati Exercino is good for the body, When the long negotiations were punishment, ordered the defen- but we need not ovor do it. Toù foot betweon Bismark and dants to receive, six strokes of have known young men who Thiers leading up to the Peace of the cane each. have gone through life with a Paris after the Franco-Gorman strained heart through a too wär, it was said that the day's' passionate devotion to some form procoodings showed whothor the of sport. have seen olderly mon 'crock up" suddenly he cause they have "takon up" exorcise too violently and mature has exacted the penalty, The body. rule is moderation.

Man of Iron had over-eaton the night before at dinner. When he was gloomy and difficult he con- fessed that he was sluggish In

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+ these days we, need every mari I was stuled. that Lam Woo There are those, of course, who and woman to be fit to light for held a contract, which he was 'to! are weakly by nature, and others the reconstruction of a world discharge under Nix weeks, who have boun the victims of shuttered by war.

of rolaying a portion of the sand-track at the Raco- coume. Rain, necording to Mr. R.B.A. Webstor who appeared for the 'defonca; had exusdd a not- back in the removal of thesoatonos to the site of the work, but: previous to that the material had |héen, removed as fast as it was dumped from the lorries. He said

NEW SHIP'S GUARDS,

KIFTY INDIANS ARRIVE.

Some lifty men of sturdy up-

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pearance, and with a boaring At the Kowloon Magistracy which marked them out instantly this morning, before Mr. E. Wat the side-path, on which the as being ox-soldiers, wore landed Hamilton, the owner of 80 and 82 Prosecution alleged the dump hadį from u stoamer from India this morning and were marched, to the Contral Police Station.

The strains of a bagpipe first heralded their appearance inside the compound, Possibly those of Gaelle oxtraction amongst the nombors of the Police Force expected to find a comrade boing honoured on his return, from leave, but if so they woro sur prised to find the bagpipes in the hands of a dusky, boarded man, one of a band of fifty of similar appearance who soun filed into the compound and paraded for inspection.

operllowed, was very little;used. Atlui, Stroot, Shanghipo. was Au-admission of guilt would be charged with using improper given to the technical offence. materials in building the pre-

His Worship accopted the plea and imposed the fine as stutod ubyò.

mixes.

Mr. Morgan, of the P.W.D. said this caso was similar to those in which Mr. Wright prosecuted] last week, the improper matorial being welded bars.

His Worship, in imposing a fine of $400, said that in future the maximum fine of $500 would be ordered in similar cases!

INFERIOR MORTÁR.

MUNCHAUSEN TÄLES.

Perils of Lighthouse Keepers. The following is from the

·Manila Bulletin: --

"There's a little adventure" loft

in this globe-trotting stuff despito Obviously they were ex-service The contractor who is engaged the efforts of cruise and tour mon, and the modals on some in the erection of three houses at directors to make sightseers look showed that there were 1914 Kau Tiu Shek, on the Kowloon at the same things in the same voterans amongst them. All had City Road, was charged with way and all that." servod in the war, and their using limo mortar stond of The experiences of Dollar linơi recruitment into the Hongkong coment morlar in einstruction of round-the-world skippère, prove Police Force was the work of an the T-head of the house.

the theory. Indian ship's guard sergeant, who

First, it was Captain Jonas Mr. A. Brooksbank, of the Pendlebury, Prosidini Adani had gone to India a few months ago on a commission from the W. D., produced a piece of chini,, reporting kating islands limo mortar pointed with coment with active cobras and monkeys which he said he hell taken from in the south China sea These now arrivals, we were the T-head of the ground floor of Now comos Captain K. B. Informed, were destined to form

Lowry, skipper of the President, the new special force of ship's one of the houses.

the details of guards placed on board coastal Defendant, who had previously Garfield, with

local authoritica.

and river vessels under the piracy boen fined $100 for a similar man-eating wild on along the prevention ordinances. The offonee, was now ordered to pay

majority of them were experienc-| double that sum.

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· The cannibals live on an island. Sakrotu Island. A lighthouse, operated by The British, is kituat-3 ed there,

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weeks adaptation to local con- Thore is at present a shortago their white meat occasionally ditions, these Lewis gunners will of Lowie gunpers fr the ships, and it's mighty seldom that the last

BEAUTY SPOT SAVED. go to replace the special police and the arrival of these men keeper of the fight can guards that are at present posted enalter a substantial addition to through three or four months great porturbation among bar

Milber Pine Woods, the famous! On those vossols. The Indians the number of ship's guards who without being accepted for soup bisters practising in the Calcutta, beauty spot between Newton and Wei-Hai-Wei men who will have been drafted for handling by the man-eators.

High Court in consequence, of a Abbot and Torquay have been be thus relieved, will then he is class of arms on the more The Prosidont Cartield found scone in the Court of Mr. Justice saved from destruction by the

words with withdrawn for shore work, for important fessels of the river the light out, when it came in Page. Aftor

an generosity of a Nowton Abbot range of the island on its first Indian

tho barrister,

Judge resident and his wife, who have which they are greatly needed.

trip. Ап investigation was ordered him to louve the Court, offered to purchase the freehold mude the next morning." A score which was done under protest. of the land, with the massivo oak of naked savage, armed to the An hour later, the entire Bar, and boooh trees, and Also to give waist line, kopl partick off the headed by the Advocato-General, a large sum of money to baad island. No one cared to go entered the Court and protested the subscription list to buy as ashore.

against the Judge's action, stating many of the pines as possible The incident was reported to that, if contempt had been com- from the timbor norchant who the nearest lighthouse headquar mitted, there was the proper had purchased them for felling, PIANO PIECES romady. The Judge, in reply, but had stayed his axe while A bored Englishman is said to said that the Burrister had been efforts to save them wore being have listened to the report of the guilty of gross disrespect in not made by the townspeople, Jack of light. Twas just another oboying the order of the Court to light keeper eaten, ho said, and it down and added I protest mado a report of it. Another against anybody dictating to mo |-man-was-sent-along-to-the island as to what-le-my-duty in this to keep the light wick trimmed respact." The Advocato-General and probably in the near future protosted that ho had no destro to to furnish boufeteaks for the dictate to the Court. cannibals.

Saying that he had taken a By way of minor diversion the moderato course, the Judge left Garfield crashed into a 30 foot the bonch. **

The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a bonow'd name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure

But Chloe is my real flamo.

!

My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay;

When Chloe noted her desire,

́ ́ That l-should sing, that I should play, )

My lyre I tuno, my voice I raise;

But with my numbers mix my sighs; And while i sing Euphelia's praise,

Thx my soul on Chico's eyes.

Fair Chloe blush'd, Euphelia frown'd:

I sung, and gazed: I play'd and trembled: | And Venus to the Loves around

Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

-Matthew Prior.

tors along the Suez.

ahark while it was doming_up The Bar has now appointed a the Lower California coast. The special committee to investigate vossel was slowed down to two tha matter and a statement is knote. The shark was not expected from the Chief Justice." discovered until morning when it

was necessary to slow down tho ship to dislodge the big fish,"

We do not recollect any

lighthouso ovor existing

on

Socotra; and 30-foot sharks are an impossibility. It looks an i Bomoone's log has been badly pulled:]

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