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no cause for regrot, and we are euro that very few people want to so him back again. What- over allowances may be ado

ANGER TURNS THE MIND OUT OF DOORS AND BOLTB THE for the policy which ho followed ENTRANOE-Plutarching in Canton, there aro two pre- dominating facts which stand

are being invited We are authorised to contradist One porfectly good way of out vividly-it was bo who once for the erection of Barrack shode the rumour that the Peak Tram sponding money is to mont a go-

for Indian and Chinose constables Company bombarded the olty, and it was at Harbour View.

propose offoring a down and then try and Bvo in it. prize of a nicely mounted season

☐ ☐ he who later gave the ordor to

ticket to the first porson who est firo to the business quartor Johnson, of Messrs. A. 8. Watson the a-nazo-ing "topside " puzzle. way is to kidnap bim.

The name of Mr. GR. F. sends in the correct solution to powers of any student; the bost To stimulate the descriptive Thore must bo somothing & Co., has buen added to the inherently

wrong with the chemists' register. direction of a policy which in- volves the deliberato bombarding

His Excellency the Governor and burning, at his own behest, to be a Justice of the Pasco for has appointed Mr. E, H. V. Boothi

of a loader's nativo city. A the Colony of Honkong. statusman whose rule rosts on such acte in better out of tho scone than in it. By these two doods, Dr. Sun has sadly "lost face" with the Саптолоне people, who will bo slow to forgot his culpability in those tragic happeninge,

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ВО There would appear to be somo truth in those base

Just when paterfamilias has regarding Singapore.

rumours squared the fur bills, he wishes

Christmas further.

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If the doctors would only study

health like some of our nowe

☐ ☐ This Crafty Landlord," by Eliza Lott. wook's Book: "Tho

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The 8.9. Ninghai, built to the papers, they'd have more time Co., Ltd., is to be launched at order of the China Navigation for vacations.

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His Majesty the King has the taipan being so ignorant. approved the appointment of the

១ ធ Hon. Mr. E. D. U. Wolfe to be an Official Member of the Legislativo for fat pooplo to dance in com- It's goiting nearly cold enough Council

fort,

Lot 1436,

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Kowloon Inland situato at Mangkok, containing to chook dancing is to marry the The boat way to stop this chook 2010 square foot, is to be sold by auction on the 29th instant. The

girl. upset price is $8,040.

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The compositor who referred

cament marred " man, roally didn't

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Some of our super-rosidonts who make such exhibitions of polico officers should bo provelled upen to give the same one of our charity concorta.

turn "at

It's easy to write shorthand. The trouble in to read it after- warde.

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A Crime Wave.

Hongkong and we mean the Colony of Hongkong, which it

Those are days of openings for oludos Kowloon will

all. This waok always

Parliament have its crime problem, and with

opened, but then again so did a the influx of refugees, or others

now silk store in Hongkong. who are professional "bad hats,"

Tondera are being invited for to a recont Benodiok as a nowly

O D from the mainland, there is bound concrete conduit with intake mean it.

the construction of a

"What is a mother-in-law?" to be a periodical incidence of dam, temporary conduit and con-

nska the Post, A darned crimo. But the presunt position tingent works in the Shing Mun

nuisance-sometimes. MARRIAGE.

is sufficiently serious to call for Valley.

☐ ☐ special comment, for one has only CAMIDGE-HOWE.-At St.

will later discuss the Kussina Suitably enough, Parliament John's Cathedral on 10th. Docom- past two mouths to see that this that Senor Antonio M. Marti Y. to read the nowspaper files of the bor Reginald Albert Camidgo Colony is in the midst of a crime Valdes holds His Majesty the It is notified for information

policy. By which time, wo of Chartered Bank of India, wave of unusual proportions. The King's Exoquatur empowering all right, but what about Great head.

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presume, all the members will Australia and China, to Audrey increased severity of punishment

Those Longue Mandatos are havo the necessary cold in the Josephine, daughter of the late moted out by the police magis him to act as Consul for Cuba in Britain administering Hongkong Major Hove and Mrs, Howe, of tratee, and other measures hirve Hongkong.

Vancouver.

The Telegraph

HONGKONG, 13th Doc., 1924.

ADMITTED GUILT.

A medical savant declares that slow-moving things last longost. That being so our new Quoan's Pior is good for eternity.

one of these days?

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Relief rather than boliaf, sot ms

to be the motto of the Kowloon

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Health Hint-Do not pose as

the suffer from lead poisoning.

had an effect in roducing the num- bor of lightfingered gentry who H. specialised in snatching ladies Admiral Sir Allan Everett, the are not averse to the account of

M. S. Hawkins, with We note that while some folk Union Church. hand-bags, but in other directions new Commander-in-Chief of the tho wedding appearing in the we are having an unenviable ex-Chins Squadron, on board, was newspapers, they are painfully a detective. You are liable to porience of the growing activities due to leave Shanghai for Hong- shy about publicity for of our criminal classes.

The kong yesterday.

divorce procaodings. serious armed robberies have boon notable for the ingenuity of

DO An Open Lecture will be given the mon concerned, whose by His Honour, Mr.

A "Flood Eoho" generally methods show very careful plan- Gompertz at the Holona May

Justice sounds suspiciously like dollars, ning, with tho result that the Institute on Monday next, at 5.30.| large majority are able to get a way p.m. Subject:-"Some Popular time of year, it looks as if Dr. seo our Courts is to carry round thefts, of clothing and jewellery, Adel. scot free. The very many lessor Aspects of the English Law."- which do not always get into the papers, exhibit the extent of the

evil element in our population. left by the P. and O. liner Amongst the passengers who

Appropriately enough for the

Sun's recoption in the North will bo chilly.

We saw a man arrested youtor

doing their best, with the limita-wore Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Stitt, The police forco are no doubt Macedonis, northward bound day with arms. Two of them. tions which an insufficient per- Mrs. W. G. Worcester, Dr. J. G.

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S.modore's initiale off by heart,

another comos along.

A battle-royal at football often loaves the spostators cold this weather.

☐ ☐ Sooms to us the easiest way to

a filod daggor.

ធ ០ Hongkong religious controversy All the words used during a

placed and on end roach no con- clusion.

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On our way to the ferry last night wo saw something partially collapse and it wasn't a second The Kowloon roadside seats floor verandah either.

been very popular these ovonings Hongkong Government have not

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For the sake of historical accuracy, it is well to put on record the fact that Dr. Sun Yat-sen, interviewed in Japan, dofinitely asserted that he order. ed the burning of the business district of Canion during the recent conflict between his troops sonnel, and, wo understund, a Lyon Brown and Mr. A. Just when wo get one Com. and the Merchant Voluntoors. somewhat changing ono, places Gubbay. Referring to

on their work; but it has to be) the opposition cf admitted that the Chinese crimi- the latter, he declared that "it nals here are able to operate with has re-appointed Mrs. A. Dthoughtfully provided by the

His Excellency the Governor was necessary to do some burn more freedom than we like to ing in order to break their resist-wave of evil-doing has been the

think of. A recent phase of this Member of the Board of Educa-

Hickling, M.B.E.. to bo

His comparison with the number of murdera, some of them tion for a further period of two Sydney Street affair does not coldblooded affairs in the most are, with effect from the 5th intoreat us; our sole concern is

thickly populated parts of the

December. the placing of the responsibility trated in the view of numerous

Colony, and a fow actually perpa- It is notified that, at the for what happened in Canton. eyewitnesses. It is to be feared Yuen Hang Yang Hong Com the company his wife makes him

expiration of three months, the That cosponsibility can no longer that with the constantly inc.eas- be placed on any other shouldere traffic in arms, the outlook for is shown to the contrary, bo

ing population, and the growing any, Limited will, unless causo koop. than those of Dr. Sun. On his our department of law and order struck off the register and the [own admission, he was the man is not at all comforting. The day Company will be dissolved.

who gave the order for the burn.will yet come when the whole ing of the Saikwan district.

ance."

who

of the

the

racitals in

have

Manila

.

Some of those moving pictures are too much so.

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.

Novor judgo a Kowloon man by

are taking an awful risk of being Would-be suicides this weather

loft there;

It looks as if it is easy to cross Jordan these days.

Ear muffs for stroot sleepers are much more ill-fitting than the strait jacket wo would recommend

A sciontist says the male of to the correspondent who made

the species is twelve por cont, the suggestion.

putting

off

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Half of Hongkong's chauffours

don't know how the other halt

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A parking device recently in vented enables a motor car to move sideways. Taxi-cra bu ?

២ ០ Italy is building roads for motorists only." Sometimes wo think Hongkong is, too,

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question of tackling orimo in this; An unknown Chinoso male, more brainy than the female. He Colony must be thoroughly or who

WAS a passenger on the needs to be. It is of more than passing plored in the light of the changes lower deck of the Southern Star

D D interest to compare this latest and are still to bring.

which the years have brought ferry committed suicide by jump In Hongkong, putting on style livo.

ing into the harbour as the ferry usually means aseortion with the attempis

was on its way to Kowloon at creditors.. which wore mado, immediately Samuel Gompers.

4.55 yesterday afternoon. after the terrible happonings in Mr. Samuol Gompere, the

If these typhoons continuo a Canton, to shift the blame on to youerablo President

Master Danenberg, the seven-little longer wo won't know what American Federation of Labour, Danenburg, will bo giving two

year-old pianist, son of Prof season they belong to. anybody but Dr. Sun and his must bo addod to troops. All manner of stato-list of those

☐ ☐ during ments word made with a view bood prematurely reported dead. Christmas week, and will also Pink corsets would appear to to absolving the Sun Yat-sen It was only the other day that he appear again in Hongkong on the he fashionablo at Court those

8th January, at the City Hall. was re-olocted to the position,

days. regime, but we will not now which

What between pirates afloat ho has hold with

and Gold Diggors" ashore, it recall any of those excepting the distination for a number of years.

The acting Govornor of Macao! The man who uses the pon name looks as if Christmas is not reference to the matter which Samuel Gompers is an English Rave a ball on Thursday night in "Advance Hongkong" is most going to bo what it used to be.

full honour of his daughter, Miss usually was contained in an official state, man by birth, as ho first saw the Santos, who received many con- feriticism.

light of day in London, in January ment issued by the Canton Press 1850. He went out to the United gratulations during the ovoning." Bureau on October 19th. This States of America quite early in There were many guests prosent. roads: "Fires burst out in sovan life, and oventually took up the including a number of well-known or eight places, either as a result vocacy on behalf of the working trado of a cigar-makor. His ad-

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destructive

What between bad weather outside and rotten trade winds inside, things are not looking too well for Santa Claus.

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Not that we wish to dry up the wall of charity, but some of these fund fiends might give us a chance to buy something for the wife occasionally.

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of the fighting or of incendiariam classes commenced when he was The Observatory return for by bad charactors," No mention only Offcon years of age, at which Novembor show that no rain fell

One of those days some report time he associated himself with during the month, whilst there

An electoral anomaly is some and balance sheet will not be whatever is mudo of deliberate efforts to organise the manual were 254 hours of sunshine. The thing you can read three columns unanimously adopted, and what setting fro to buildinga at the workers. Ho. is one of the average mean temperature was about and be no wiser, order of Dr. Sun; on the confounders of the American Fedora- 68.2, the highest being 81.5 and trary, there is an obvious attempt official magazino; besides boing humidity was 57. tion of Labour, and editor of its the lowest 52.2. to ripresent the torrible con- the author of a large numbor of flagration 35 boing either pamphlets on the labour quos- accidental

the or

work

the

The average

His

than ?

៦ ឆ Telegraph heading!— "Stono.

We're all for quiot weddings, outtore Isolated," Aftor looking but Goorgo how cold it must be at the masons down our stroot wo on the Stanley those mornings! shouldn't have thought it was

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Last wook's cricket match ras

minds us that the Hongkong

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of tion and the union movomont, look and abhorrence of all forms catching.

First elected Prosident of the of extremism, thus eotting a ruffians. The contrast between Fodoration as long ago as 1882, example to his followers,

fino that official statement and Dr. he has hold that ponition up book, published some years ago, way of getting rid of chaps is to pipe band.

Ladies please note: The host Scottish ought to raise a lidies' Bun'e lator admission will, noto

presont, with, we Labourin Europe and America," at onions, doubt, bo duly noted and borno beliove, only ono intermission of roflects this broad, balanced out- in mind.

a year when he declined the post. | look, which has made him so much. Ho was also the first Vico- esteemed, even by those of opment Protocol for Hongkong,

What we want is a Disarma- In view of all that happened Prosident of the National Civio poalto camps. His demise would be Federation. Mr. Gompers will loss not only to his immediato during Dr. Sun's stay in Canton always ho remombored as a man associates, but also to the land of It is as well that hajis no longer who has combined bis work for his adoption, and to the whole thore; bis absence is curtaintly Labour with a raro sanity of out- Labour world,

Anti-rabic treatment is also indicated for some of our road hogs. ☐ ☐

NO After reading all the recont Some of these mess burglaries roligious correspondence, we now are generally worse than that know what a Biblo-Ciroló in. by the time the police arrive.

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