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REFORM NEEDED.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925.

DAY BY DAY.

to` dismissal ́at 24 hours' notioo. This point was touched upon at somo length in the "Sul An Commission's Roport, which WIOSE NOBLE AND GLORIOUS MEN OF REAL MERIT, AND

declared that all officers of river DEEDS WE ARE READY TO fboats should sign articles for not ACKNOWLEDGE, ARE YET NOT loss than throo "months. There VAUNT THEIR OWN ACTIONS,

TO BE ENDURED WHEN THEY

is not the lonst doubt that tho | Aeschines. time is ripe for reform of con- ditions of sorvice' on our rivor stoamora. Such roform must aim at guaranteeing tonure of position and firmor and mora

adequate control by officers. The suggestion that A committee enquire into this subject is most portinent, and wa can only hopo that some such atop will be taken, resulting eventually in placing Earoposa officers and enginoors on a much better foot- ing than at the present moment.

An Imperial Project.

Lady Sovern is to present the prizes at the Italian Convent Bobool on Febuary 10th

The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders are holding their annual ball at the City Hall on February 20th.

Gunner Elemont was yoster- day committed for trial on a charge of assaulting an 11-year- old Chinese girl.

MIXED

· ASHLEY STERNE-

GRILL

'AVTHOR OF

TWISTED TALES-

This, my friends, although it (you don't eat it. When cold it roaches you rather late in tho makes a useful paperwoight or day, is a Special Christmas Num-door-stopper. bar of "Mixod Grill", in which I propose to doal solely with Christmas topice. For once I shall coasa to discuss the vital problems of the day. and devoto

I have been trying hard to oom. poso an original Httle Christmas poem for this column, but unfor- tunatoly thoro are no authentic rhymes to "Christmas"; and the the task has been almost beyond my powers. Here goes, any a con-way-1

myself exclusively to sidoration of Yuletide mattere. It is notified that the name of By a happy coincidence oven the Hongkong Man Bang Kung this week's instalmont of my Yick Association, Limited, has splendid now eorlal story doala boon struck off the Registor. with Christmas Day. First of all, let me present ovary reader with

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Tho Shanghai Interport foot-my privato greeting-card, ballers and yachtsmon, as well an The first tendo cy, on reading the Madeline Rossitor Company, the report of efforts which are left by the President Lincoln being made to raise £100,000 for today. the Imperial College of Tropical

MR. ASHLEY STERNE WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS. and bags to announce that ho gives the highost possible prices for old or disused false tooth.

Agriculture, is to Ignoro its Crowds are patronising the interest to Hongkong. This Coronot, whore Charlie Chaplin Colony cannot have much concern is to be soon in "A Woman of In the promotion of agricultura]] Paris," a ploturo which shows the industry on a large scale, though great comodian in an entirely N. a great deal might be done now rolo.

En developing cortain crope,

Payment mado in convenient instalments,

-NO HUSINESS TRANSACTED

WITH MINORS,

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especially fruit crops, in the "Tho Fool'u Highway" is Now Territories. A time is sure proving very popular at the what a bald and unconvincing Talking of Christmas cards, to come when the question of Queen's Thontro. An additional

document the modera card is! It local production will be of attraction is a now programme is about as sontimental and considerable importance to alby the Manila Vaudevillo artistic as a jury summons or a

growing community, but that Company. will probably not be for many;

Soup ticket. Timo was when Christmas cards really reflected yoara yot. However, there are The forthcoming wedding is the spirit of the season: ye olde, obviously other considerations announced of Mr. Arthur snow-covered village church, with than mero agricultural crops in Lawrence Powell, revenue officer. coloured gelatine windows; a the matter of the Imperial College of No. 1 Beaconsfield Arcade, to sky studded with lovely tinsel activities, for it doals with such Miss Kathleen Hoap, of Mount stara varied subjects as improved plant Austin Barracks, the Peak.

tho sizo of spiders, health as well as enlarged yields,}

and possibly the figure of a ***

horald angel blowing a long gol. and does not omit the human

We have to acknowledge the don trombone hovoring in mid air; health factor. Indood, we find receipt of the A. P. C. diary for a foreground showing the Oldest It is nicoly bound in Inhabitant, apparently in the and contains much throes of lumbago, carrying a of a young forest on his back; the

timo is

I've long cherished the ambi- tion to contribute an addition. To oursomewhat scanty postry

on Yuletide;

But though the tank is fonal-blo

it's cortainly not easy. For I find myself by rigid

rhyming rule tiod.

I fool as badly stranded as somo steamer that has landed On the sticky mnd of Suez's

fair isthmus;

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And my heart is rent and raw that orthography's strict law Probibita mo from spelling

Christmas" Christhmus," Tho' I'm sure no one eun ques- tion Yulotido's claim to Indigestion

(And its soquol-sodium car

bonato and bismuth); Yot I know 'twould count as treason if I gave this as the

reason

For distorting ita orthography

to Chrismuth."

As one word I cannot mato it;

but if I abbreviato it

And divide it (as a ohomlat a

complex mas

Analyses into units), woll that's

quite another tune; it's

An awfly easy job to rhymo

with its "Xmas."

Yot, when with courtly low

bow underneath the mistletoe I've saluted sundry aunts and

also kissed ma's, Evou Buch

oneo excitement cannot crush the sad indiot- mont

That I've failed to find ono single rhyme to "Christmas"]

out their duties. In a character/Thore is need for more Empire Magistrato (Mr. E. W. Hamilton)./ chunk of solid poetry all about!

Arising out of the notor by the Senior Naval Officer in chargo of the Wont River Patrols, in rogard to the mattor of piracy a generous American donation 1925. provention, there is an important for a Professorship of tropical leather question which demands early sanitation und hygione. The interesting information and thorough-going attention.

opportuno to point technical and gonoral character. out that Hongkong should We refer to the question of the take more thun ordinary Two Chinese wore yesterday conditions under which masters interest in the young College. committed for trial on a charge of We are faced with a short-robbing a married woman with and officers of many of our river)

age of flour, which could have violanco, at Kowloon. steamers aro campolled, in oxbeen avoided had there been more workmen who chased the prison. baking powder in imitation of Two whole lavishly sprinkled with

isting circumstances, to

land in the Empire under wheat. carry

ете wore commended by the hour-frost, and, at the foot, a

grown cotton, and in time this

pesco and goodwill. That was would moun kocner' competition in the local piece goods market, withdrawn from the Lai Wah one chilblains to look at it.

The Army and Navy have the real Christmas stuff. It gave (or, The Girl who took the Wrong

Umbrella). Finally, there is the important Cup Compotition, but to-day a seo what takes its place to-day, question of this port's sanitary match between naval and milit- plain rectangle of pesto-board

CHAPTER LIV. status, recently under discussionary teams is to be played at bearing the inspiring and boauti- como round as it had so ofton Once again Christmas had shortly to be reviewed Sookuapoo in aid of Service Dithoring Dogabody, Xmas 24" music of the merry Christmas ful legond, "Mr.. and Mrs. done before, and it was to the Evidently our position in regard 3.45 p.m.

the Singapore conference charities. The game starts at to this Imporial institution is not destined to bo that of mere onlookers.

istically outspokon mannor, this naval officer hits the nail woll on the hoad when he says that "the compradores have a great deal too much control over mat tors which should be in the cap tains' hands, and the captains' tonure of their appointments on the second-class steamors is far too precarious to expect a really efficient and suitable officer to accopt cominand of such steam-

concira

and

ot

Another Strike,

But

KNOOK-KNEED KNORA:

or something equally abrupt. abimes that Asphyxia rose from If things continuo to evolve in her bed, took her tooth from the The Chinese arrested recently of the near future will probably the

this manner the Christmas card soapdish, hor hair from in Carolino Stroot after a pistol be a luggage-label with nothing

chairback, her com- battle with the polloo, and charged yesterday before Mr. on it at all. J. R. Wood, with boing in pos508- sion of a loaded pistol, has been for trial at the

batwaori

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Have you board the story of the Scotsman who inadvertently swallowed the sixpence in the Christmas pudding? The chemist charged him a shilling for the mustard-and-water,.

ploxion from three chica jars and a bottle, and arrayed barself for the coming festivitios,

on to him, and forbidden him the house, grounds, stabling, garage, kennels, vinery, cucum. bery, and all the other moderni improvements.

It seems to be the misfortune of this place to have entered an committed

But though hor lips wore a era.""

bravo smile her hoart was heavy ora of strikes by various cle980s Sessions.

as a sack of coal, for her memory Horo is raised a quoation which of labour, dating mostly from the

went back to does not solely

that Christmas big affair of March 1922. Since the

There should bò a large crowd

three years ago when Asmodeus piracy problem; it affects the tale of demands for more wages, when soven ovents will be staged. then there has been a continuous at to-night's boxing tournament.

Qumph had poured his soul.out whole realm of sorvice on river with builders, moulders, painters. The main contest is

Into her car and confuss- and other trades involved. There Marino Betts and Pto. Pooloy correspondent has written to ask only that, but she had turned the

od his love eteamers. Elsewhere in his ro-was only recently a full roturn for the Scott Harston bolt and the me if I can give a reliable recipe dogs, two footmon, and the fire.

for Which reminds

hor. And mo that she had spuraed him! Not marks, the Senior Naval Officer to work of the moulders, whose Welterweight Championship of for a wholesome Christmas pud-hose states that the hands of Captains period of downing tools dragged the Colony.

on for several months before a should be strengthened and in-final arrangement was arrived

ding, I can and if you con efficent officers got rid of. But it at. The employers oculd not pog. list of medical practitioners the Thoro has been added to the would be obviously putting the sibly see their way to grant all name of Dr. Salomon Ho Aejos, the demands in that case, and tho cart before the horse to got rid men have had to be content with Bank of China Building, Ho le of a certain type of officer smaller concessions. A

a Licentiate of the Royal Collogo before making the conditions of days ago an unpretentious ad- of Physicians and of the Royal scientiously carry out the follow

vertisement in the local Press College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, ing instructions you will, un- service such that better mon draw attention to the fact that as well as of the Royal Faculty haitatingly agree with me that would be attracted thereto. Di-there had been a demand for of Physicians and Surgeons of my pudding cannot possibly bo

Glasgow. vided control is fatal in any more wages by the local painters, sphoro

Take a pound of ra-inforced of human

which was settled amicably by activity, the granting of an increnao of

The majority of the delegates concrete, a pint-and half of tar, whother ashore or afloat; indood, thirty per cent. Now we have who have been attending the dozon dog-biscuits reduced to it is apt to lead to disastrous the packers on strike, and thoir Medical Conference loft this powdor, the rind of a football

requests aro in some

morning by the President Lincoln. finely shredded, a lump of sust. consequences on vessels Carry-absurd. Liko Oliver Twist, the Thoy express groat satisfaction the size of a bit of coal, and Ing passengers or any consider- local labourer is continually at the success of the Canforonos 463 currants. Mix thoroughly

A hip-bath, then add ablo cargo, whether from the asking for more, and the packers and wish to racord their grateful in dangers of piracy or of any other som to have hit on an easy wayality extended to them by the boat to a stiff pasto with an old

appreciation of the kind hospi:- quart of getting everything settled unoxpooted happening. Under forehand by demanding & con- medical practitioners and re- umbrella, Loove for throa wooks

fow

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Boston.

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of cod-liver oil, and

in

Was not her lover who had

And all for a misunderstand- log! Woll sho know her heart of hearts th sandbagged the Prime Minister and stolen his braces; but her pride, her curand prido, had forbad her to speak, and Asmodeus had passed out of her life for ever.

For over? Little did Asphyxia know that even as her tears thudded on to the old Drage two monoclos and one spat, was dressing-table Asmodeus, wearing at that moment at the lodge gates inquiring the way to the front door. existing conditions, mastors and tinuing annual increase that insidents of the Colony, as well as to rise, then turn it, taking care Rapidly she completed. her repaired to the officers alike are often afraid of time would mean the multiplice their many hosts, both foreign to tuck in the solvedge. When tolles, and

tion of their present wage be- and Chinono.

fully risen in all directions tio up breakfast room. The room was Inourring tho angar of com.yond all ideas of worth.

the mixture in a pudding-cloth, empty save for a dish of sausages, pradoros by insisting on cortain they morely forecasting what At the Interport football

lashing together the loose ends and Asphyxia, who had had no necessary measures, and until the employers in the fature are dinner on Thursday, the long with a mohair bootlace. Thump food atacs her last meal, sniffed

into to be asked to pay ? Curtainly, kong Telegraph Cup and the

circular shape with a thom hungrily. She was about the lattors' powers are definitely if matters go on as at present, Shaughai flag were presented by pudding-thumper, then boll till to selost one when a loud knock [limited, we cannot ass that much there will be little difference be the Shanghai "osptain

red-hot in a slow oven. Remove at the front door caused her to (Mr. improvement is to be effected as tween an annual strike for in-Phillips) to Mr. MoKelvio, Hong- the cloth, sandpaper the pudding start. Her heart began to beat oreused wages and the present kong's captain, after a fow well to remove rough edges, stick a violently-bump-biff, bump-and the rogards the type of officer one for an indefloite increment, chosen remarks in which he said spray of holly in its North Polo, sausages bagan to cool off. Some- ongaged оп cortain river However much one might try to that the cup was quite the finest pour over it a rich sauce made thing was about to happen. She put the thought out of mind, it trophy offered for competition by meiting a tallow candle in a soused it, in every fibre of her is continually being borne on amongst football olevone in the bucket of bolling glue, and serve boing.

East. He congratulated Hong with a frot-saw The above And then the door slowly

more than kong on their success and pro- quantities will be mised that next year, Shanghal sufficient for six persons. would do their best to keep it in I may add that this pudding in

(To be concluded. the Northern pork,

perfectly wholesome so long as opportunity.)

steamers.

Áro

Thoro in one other mattor que that not the loant disquieting which deserves a word in this problem in the local series is the

unending use by the "enlight connection—namely, the system oned Chinose worker of the now under which officors are liable strike weapon,

opened!.