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8 clean bill of Thore was health in the Colony yesterday.
Lady Sovem is to distributo the prizes at the Peak School on the 22nd instant at 5.15 p.m.
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We are authorised to con- A New York woman complain tradict the rumour that the tunneled that her husband pawned her arrangement at the top-side Peak ring to buy a drink. Looks as if tram station has been devised this is "the rum ring" we hear with a view to trapping olusive so much about..... taipans on fing days.
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Many Germans would like to. swop a few billion of their marks for a couple of Bismarcks.
to look to. How that will turn aut, it is impossible to say, of course, but if we take long vlows there need be little concern for the days ahead. What we are glad to observe, however, is the Cspread of modern buildings to the
Our advertisement columns
In Riga, poasants recently Chinese quarters of the city. No announce the A. D. C's production
Rope is said to be stronger killed a tax collector. The Hong- doubt we shall see more of that of Bornard Shaw's "St. Joan."
when wot. Special care should kong Government plays cafo by as time goes on. This is not
"The Girl Who Came Back," taken to keep Christmas gift sending out its demands by post.
00 only a welcome sign from tho
Tom Forman's gripping produc-cigars dry.
Coincident headings
in B M standpoint of business convotion, in showing for the last time
Wedding rings are to be given local paper:-"Bafe Oponed; loncos but it means that by at the World Theatre to-night.
Same thing away in piccos of cake at the Bt. "Bazaar Opened." gradual process, Hongkong 18
From Messrs. Flotoner and Co. Vincent de Paul Fote to-morrow. for the victims, P getting rid of many ramshackle
(The Pharmacy) we have received Wo understand that in order to old blocks a circumstanco
an effective wall calendar bearing prevent them being swallowed, which cannot but. give general a pretty fireside scene in colours, there will be a platinum,
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Mise Patterson, who reported Vory fow local commentators tho thoft of A watch soomed to think that Capital and whilst walking in Well-Labour could walk hand-in-hard ington Stroot the other day, has in the proposed Garden of Ede-n. tempoiary. Even more uncom- now stated that the watch has The recent meeting of the been found in the Holona May mombors of the local Society for Institute..
There is no truth in the rumour the Prvention of Cruelty to Ani-
harbour? that schoolboys have been the mals recalls the fact that such It is notified that, at the expira-But why cross the socioties all over the world, whilotion of three months the Luen They should support home indus- ohiof patrons of a local firm which
le advertising an Xams sale. Company, trios. doing splendid work, are un Shaung Steamship fortunately still necessary. The Limited will, unloss cause is
A lady cricketer asked "Who's sproad of education to the masson, shown to the contrary, be struck and especially tho oxtonded
off the register and the company Yorker?" when told that one of knowledge of natural history will be dissolved.
bor side was bowlod by ono. with its teaching of a sympathy
ᄆᄆ for dumb creaturos, has made all The Manager of the Graeco-
The Curfew Order: Few ours civilised peoples more humano, Egyptian Tobacco but everywhere are individuais Queen's Road Central reported shot.
D who revert to the practices of to the police yesterday that a our remoto forefathers, whose
boy absconded
money "Finnish Communists,” says absolute brutality towards ani collected from various customers newspaper heading. We only
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REYNELL-In Shanghai, o December 4th, 1924, Alfred Eze Reynell.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 6th Dec., 1924.
THE PROPERTY OUTLOOK.
with
to the amount of $225.
Storo
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Kowloon revellers are agitat- ing for a much later ferry service.
wish somebody would.
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"Daggor in Hat," says & con-
fortable than a boe in the bonnet.
This Work's Book: "The Inoxorablo Barrior" (a posthu- mous work) by the late Starr Forrior.
០ ព Tho troubla with Canton's problem play is that it has too many plots.
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Not boing content with the curo of souls, some local parsons Wo wonder how these various now want to
"Fanling' fover."
Governments rocognlee the
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Many a Hongkong man would
"The smallest sorows in the like to put off paying bis tailor's
bille till hö reincarnatos. in to be found world watches," says a scientific journ. al. We always thought they were in the. Education Department.
☐ ☐ Should dogs only bo muzzled?
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One of the local movie features is "The Girl Who Came Back." Unfortunately,
our
☐ D One thing about this locat trado depression, business no longer interferes with sport,
Editor's $40,000 Suit," says a nowspaper heading. These Pross Plutocrats!
next-door Utopia must be a place where neighbour's cat has done the your trousers last as long as your
mals was born of the primoval fear of them and the constant those boasta war against
It is notified that the Governor who could not he domesticated
It is a in Council has authorised the and turned to good use, strange fact that whilst a great place adjoining the north west deal is done to protect moat dumb boundary of the Stanley Cemetery, Soviet. By its finger-prints, pox- animals if they be of some use to having an area of about 34,650 Bibly. us, the beasts of the junglo.arasquare foot, to be used as considered good sport for all, and cemetery; the said place is to be the often cruel trapping of fur-known as the Christian Chinseo bearers goes on undiminished to Comotory, Stanley. From the "statoments made to supply-milady with her winter
The Master of the 8.8. Glenepp a representative of this paper comforte. The disgusting methods
of killing seals are known to faw reports that on Thursday, whilst yesterday it would seem that the who have not actually soon the on the way to Hongkong and nileged slump in property values alaughter in full swing. Only of when in Lat. 21.40 N., Long. Ask a married man. locally is not nearly so marked recent years has the public 114.18 E.. his ship passed a
awakened to the submerged junk-probably or general as was thought. In Conscience
ernoltios attached to the collec- Hongkong junk. Tho wrack is cartain localities, il appoare, high tion of birds' winge and feather dangorous to south bound ships prices are still being asked and for the millinery trado, and the and other junks fishing in the
But whilst this is so, extermination of cortain species vicinity.
of beautiful wild birds is already we have little doubt that an end inevitable. The egret has had Executing a search warrant on
From one of the recent losal has been reached to the foolish to receive special protection, but the steamer Ruthenia, yesterday, un polico officers under Sub-In- Boramble which some time ago it is still threatened by
scrupulous. collectors, one of spector Shaftain found $4,000 scholastic reports: "The school
Thieves broke tooks. was witnessed for sites at any whose methods is to cut the worth of oplum concealed in the was inspected three times during seo the point le got down to brass cost. That was a most unhealthy plumage off the living bird, storeroom under some awninge. into the school three times this development, causod in the main during the posting season, so Two mombors of the crow-a
fireman-were year." Evidently an extension by the fact that there was plenty that both the tortured creature roaman anda
and its young are sometimes left arrested and will be charged be- of the rule of three. to die mizerably within sound of for the Magistrate as soon as the uso in exploiting current needs one another. The kindly Queen opium has soon cortified, both in the matter of housing Alexandra fortunately did mush
to stop the fashion in feathors As the appealing little child of will go as nervous wrecks. accommodation
business and skins of wild birds for hata divorce-wrecked home, Baby promises. The boom could ob- adornments. Of course, the use Poggy, smallest of the soreon
Many a man wishes he could viously not last for ever, and it of coloured feathers of domestic stars, has given filmdom some- was bad from the fact that to fowl, and ostrich feathers, which thing really now in The Law in Hongkong is that your wife is laugh at his own expense when
are procured on farms without Forbids," her now Univoreal-always liable to ask for a nice the shroffs come round. scoure anything like a reason any cruelty to tho creatures Jowel feature, thanks also to a fur coat. able return on outlay, abnorm- providing thom, is exempt from great supporting ally heavy rentals would have to any moral ban.
secured,
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The Fancy Dress season has
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☐ ☐ Lots of folk find taxi-dodging nearly as difficult as tax-dodging. ” ៨
Worst of making a bit of money
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Whilst we are all for demo- wa cannot bear tho crasy, thought of Peak parents going to Kowloon to sos their childron at. futuro Central British School prize distributions.
The A.D.C's "Joan" perfor- manco would have been & Shaw thing for "Derby " Day.
picture opened last night at the A local recreation club an- Qucons
Tho Thoatre.
most nounces the abolition of the chit bo charged. Gradually, we are In The East.
famous little girl in the world system. Which'll be more popular: approaching more stable coud!. Perhaps and wo say it without has been known mostly as a the chit or the bob? tions, for the demand is begin-any intention of casting mud at comedienne, but the roalization ning to bo satisfied, and the particular nationalltios-the most that she can also make audiences
cruelty is encountered in the East, ory comes with a startling gasp A maritime flirtation: Presid consequence is that prospective and in China the newcomer is in her remarkable play. She ont Garfield signalling Emprese
witnous to rovolting makes laughs, too--a Baby Poggy of Canada. investors in property will not, often
. ឆ, ២ generally speaking, pay prices brutality towards dumb creatures. picture wouldn't be a real one
If all the local clowns and which they wore formerly will-If we remombor that the country without thom.
is still in somathing of an evolu-
joined the ing to do,
tionary poried so far as education
This idea of preventing the We hardly need remind readers alleged musicians None the less, wa
goes, and that in Britain not of the annual fete of the Society carnival show which is adver-
of a serum of which there is. vory many years ago there of St. Vincont do Paul, to bo tising for recruits, our housing spread of rables locally by the use
problem would be solved. that property can be, and still was the practice of bull-baiting, held in the compound of the
none in the Colony, reminde ᄆᄆ
us of the man who said that if he is, a good investment in this cock-fighting, dog-fighting, and Catholic Cathedral, Caino Road,
unpleasant practice to-morrow evening, under H. E. Router aunounced this week had some petrol he would give Colony, providod ordinary busi-oven Boss prudonco is exorcised in among the lower orders of skin- the Governor's patronage. There that no Peace Prize is being us a motor ride-if he had a car! ning cate alive, besides recalling is a fine display of good things, awarded. Some of these Chinese develop the modern its
articles, acquisition and
sport" of shooting toys and useful
to" leaders" will feel a bit soro
Noarly winning a motor car in baskets purchase, as well as a number mont. The general tendency at pigeois released from
& raffle is onough to drivo the moment, so far as business (until comparatively recently with of raffles, and the excellent
Referring to a recent concert some people to drink. one eye put out so that they entertainment this foto always! houses are concerned, is to go could only fly in a certain direc-provides will be well maintained performance the Post says: "The
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"British in for modern structures more tion), and the still prevalent buli-Thore is to be a late ferry back house roso at the trio".
From 2.30 reading further we were glad to Talking of the
Sabbath, wa'ro all for the good- fitted to present-day demands Oghting-if we remember all this. to Kowloco at, 1 am.
old American frulty sundao. than much of the old property we can perhaps understand the to 0.30 in the afternoon the seg there were no casualties.
way China te lagging behind in grounds will be open as a special still standing in the Colony-the matter of humanity to dumb treat to children, when certain
Bix "Little Hons" wore recent- are particularly animals. The most revolting stalls and amusements will be The Chinose keon to follow this policy, and sights of the recent war in the got going. An additional attrac-ly collected from a certain back- North have been the hundredation both in the afternoon and yard in Kowloon. The oats had that fa 4 promising circum-
of mules and ponies which wore evening will be the band of the quite an alarming time. stanco. Hongkong is destined to noglected and loit to starvo by East Surrey Regiment. We nood
Owing to slack business, a local grow porhaps even to a greater callous persons who were in merely add that overy dollar ox'ent than is now realised; and charge of them. In some casue apont will aid a very deserving firm of undertakers is said to be donkeys are to be raffled.
these beasts were actually for charity.
thinking of Inaugurating with the expansion and develop-gotton for wooks at a time! One
bargain sale, mont of the Colony the need for train of trucks was found with all modern buslaoss premises will its mulos dead, and some of the booome
moro emphasised. In animale had eaton the thick East in still very far from realising Now that the local dancing 'quired evidently, are on o
wooden walls of the trucks in the obligations of man towards
leaving the Colony us have that crushin' fooling. the contral part of the city there their agony of starvation. Such the lowly creatures over which season is in full swing, most of Wa observe that the owner is have boon wonderful improvo- things soom strange in a land he has dominance. But one must
The worst of this rabies spare The ladies howlies at yester- ments effosted during recont where Bhuddism is one of the expoot vory little, in China or widespread roligious bellofs; and elsewhere, while man's inhu- yoard, and not much renialus to oven allowing for the stress of a manity to man" is itself & matter is that getting bitten by a dog is day's cricket match was a bit o Lo accomplished here. Indeed, campaign it is evident that the for condemnation.
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