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Morocco, however, scams to offer the answer, with its rifles instead of flintlocke, tanks instead of camole, and aeroplanos Instead of earth-bound impotancy, It'is but a sign of the times.

Cement Roads.

1925

DAY BY DAY.

GODLINESS IS PRACTICAL RE- LIGION. Dewey.

Mixed Grill," by Ashley. Storn, is unavoidably held over until Monday.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the "Hongkong." Tolograph.") Britisher.

SURREYS BOXING.

INTER-COMPANY" TOURNAMENT.

[BY WANDERER" |

Sir-Allow me to correct a peculiar misapprehension under In contradistinction to happen- which Pakoba" is labouring ings in the preliminary bouts of Tonders are being invited for Ho is thinking of the term the East Surreys Inter-Company Tournament, where three men in the erection of a three-storey Imperialist.

A Britisher (batter still, Briton) block of coolio quartors at the

is essentially one of British blood, every four applied the k.o. to their Yaumati police camber,

1.c.descendant of the stock opponents, only one man showed ants to honoure when the semi- native to the British Isles. This aptitude forourly disposalofaspir

em-suals and finals were fought last cannot be too strongly

avoning. phasised.

Yours, etc.,

Hongkong, May 8th, 1925. ma

The authorities in Manila, we soo, are to consider the question of using cement concreto for the construction of roads. Modern His Excellency the Governor traffic, especially hoavy motor has appointed Mr. Hung Hing vobioles, quickly wear thorough-kam to be a Justice of the Ponco fares out, and the result is that for the Colony of Hongkong. thore is very considerable recur ring expenso incurred in keeping Inspection roads in proper repair. It is bo- chines, valued at $88, wóre stolen lieved in some quartore in Manila from the Chung Wan macaroni that coment roads, while costly at factory, 34 Argyle Stroot, during the boginning, likely are to prove the night of May 7. cheaper in the long run on ad count

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The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 9th May, 1925.

Four macaroni outting-

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BRITON.

Sir, I wonder how your corres pondent would define a person born in the Crown Colony of Hong

Some of the bouts. provided ex collent sport, others, though theao were low would have done wall to have taken the bout between two small boys, Ramsoy and. Massay, as an admirable example, and forthwith proceeded to follow it. Ramsey won after four well-

The schedule to the Licensing kong, saoing that according to his contested rounds. The results of their greator durability. Whe ther experience would bear out Ordinance, 1887, has been amand-ides, "a Britisher is a fully were that contention must be a mooted by the substitution of $50, as franchised citizon," and at the point until actual exporimonts the fed for a monoy-changer's same time, bearing in mind that Flyweights Final: Pto. until we get Constitutional Re-Mabey was given a points verdist have been made. We were in licence, instead of $10.

form, not a single soul is franchis-over Fto. Quelch. Mabey won the first round but lost the next formed the other day by a gontle- man who previously resided in It is notified that the names of od in Hongkongl

At the same time, it is rather two it was a doubtful decision- Singapore that some experiments To Lee and Company, Limited, were made there some years ago and the Lee Hong Steamship olover of him to tell us that the with the idea of testing out cement Company, Limited, have been "whole is greater than a particular Pto. Simpson beat Pro. Block."

Pto "Grint boat Pte. Woollcott; conerate roads, but that they were struck off the Register.""

for the most part one might have. imagined, two girls were in the ring sparring. Final Simpson boat Grint on points. Grint gave" a far böttor show but was well beaten.

not successful, mainly by reason

part.".

of cost and also because of the

difficulty in "taking up" the roads

Amongst the passengers who

Yours, eto.,

AH PA KE.

whan cablos or drains had to be departed by the President Jeffer- Hongkong, May 8th, 1925.. laid. There is, no doubt, somo-son, in addition to the Hongkong thing to be said both for and interport cricket team, were Mrs. B. D. F. Beith, Major W. S. against cement roads, and in view Nathan and Miss D. O'Keefe.

of the heavy costs annually occasioned in Hongkong for the upkeep of our thoroughfareS

It is notified that, at the expira-

Teaching Experience.

Bantamweights: --Semi-finals:

Feather-weights-Semi-finals: Ple. Cooper beat Dir. Newman on points; Umr. Bowles boat Pto. Halcombe on points. Final Bowles was always too olevor,

Lightweights -

ghts: -- Semi-finals:

Sir,-Your article in last even a cost which must enormously tion of three months, the Kung ing's Telegraph on the subject of will the remarks made by the Director increase as time goes on it Yick Company, Limited might be worth while exploring unless cause is shown to the con- of Education at last Wednesday's for Cooper and won on points,

bation was very much to the point, Pte. Williamson k.o. Fred the possibilities along this line. trary, bo struck off the register meeting of the Board of Educa One thing, there should be no end the Company will

As a parent, I can only expressSimmonds in the first round; Opl. diseolvad:

the hope that the Government Choules beat Pto. Ditch on shortage of cement for work of this kind, in view of the fact

The Colony's credit balance at will lose no timo in disclaiming points. Final-Williamson k. 0.

the policy enunciated by Mr. Upl. Choules in 30 seconds. that that commodity figureS OS

the ond of *January

with Orme, for it seems to me that $13,446,516, compared!

Welterweights: Serai finals SIGNS OF THE TIMES. one of Hongkong's most im-

education will be in a 'bad way portant manufactures.

the ond of $13,107,549 at

here if we are to go through. the Pic. Mann, byo. Pte. Pooley revenuo December. The

for

Grant was destruck January was $1,985,571, and the experience we had during the was given the verdict.ovor Pta.

war, when anybody was consider Grant. expenditure $1,646,604.

ed good enough to teach our auspiciously low and declined to continue. Final: Pooley beat children.

Wrangel Island,

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was

La

It cannot be denied that the romarkable strength of the Riff forces in Morocco is a surprise,

American journals to hand in- To the list of medical practi-

You wonder what the certif-Mann. cated teachers of Hongkong think Middleweights: Pie. Eaton dot] and that the French will have to dicate that there is a prospect of tloners has been added the name take in a fresh perspective of a rönewal of the disputes ra- of Dr. Dorothy Evaleen Galbraith, of Mr. Ormo's strange diotum, feated an unorthodox opponent

the garding

ownership of of the Nethersolo Hospital, Mem- their campaign, probably adding Wrangel Island. They state that ber of the Royal College of Sur-So do I; and I would also like to in Pte. Shepherd on points; Pie. easily doteated further to their own forces during the Lomens, of Alaska, Gescribed geons, England, and Licentiate know what the N. U. T. at Home Problitis defeated Pte. England.

It looks as if. Mr. | Problitis on points, ed outlook. the next few weeks. One of the as millionaire reindeer kings," of the Royal College of Physicians, would say about such an antiquat- Final: Baton

Orme would not in the loast mind

Light-heavyweights: Final first signs that those North want to occupy it for the United London.

Statos. It is common knowledge,

this Colony paying good money Pto-depper defeated Pre. Roberts Boxing "fans" will be interest- African tribesmen were of a new of course that Russia claims this

jobs. Wo do not want pupil

"A" Company carried off the school, well-armed and fairly island and has already arrested aed to learn that the challenge toto teach would-be teachers their on points.

teachers out here from Home; wel well trained, was the virtual party of Americans who at Cartlidge by Shaddock, of H. M.

tempted to coloniso it. Britain, A. S. Brisbane (mentioned in the want fully qualified men and wo-inter-company honours with 5136 collapse of the Spanish military on the other hand, is said to Telegraph the other day) has been organisation before the onward have some claim to it. In this accepted, and a bout will take men, and, as you say, we could points, "B" with 2311⁄2 WOIC tions of service attractive enough. Poluts and "O" and "D" com sweep of the insurgents. Most connection, it is interesting to place if preliminary arrangements got them if we made, the condi- second, White Wing secured 21

rocall that the island was can be made.

For a Colony so rich as Hong-panies claimed 19 each, observers were evidently caught sighted by Sir Henry Kellett

kong to be willing to put up with His Excellency the Governor any type of individual, so long off their guard owing to the ca long ago as 1849, that it was tendency to consider Spain aro-discovered by the American, has appointed Dr. J. B. Addison as he has reived a docent

de Long, in 1867, who named if M. B. E., provisionally and subject education, to instruct our children HONGKONG IMPORTS. second-rate power, and thus the after Baron von Wrangel, a to His Majesty's pleasure, tempo- is nothing short of disgraceful. actual strength of the Riffs Russian Arctic explorer, and rarily to be a Member of the This Colony will never be able to was considerably underestimated. that it was explored by the Loglelative Council during the boast of being a contre of learn American expedition of 1881. Its absence on loave of the Hon. Mr. ing so long as a policy of that

kind is followed. Now we learn of an organisation real ownership will no doubt be E. D. C. Wolfe.

Hoping that I have not takon rivalling in efficiency the mili-eventually establishod, and we

April was an unusually cool up too much of your valuable tarism of Europe, with well-do not imagine that anybody

month, the average mean lem- will go to war about it.

perature being 65.2, compared with a forty years' mean of 70.4. The highest recorded was 81:2, 110.4 hours of sunshine and 7.93. to have arrived in this North TENNIS TOURNAMENT. and the lowest 52.4. There were inches of rain, whilst the average African territory, and only the

humidity was 83. far-seeing, perhaps, can tell what it will all lead to in the end.

served modern artillery, aero.. planes, and tanks. The ordor of things seems definitely

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new

S. A. RUMJAHN IN SEMI-FINAL,

[BY" WANDERER."]

Treasurer.

space.

Your etc,, FATHER OF TOUR: Hongkong, May 9th, 1925.

CONDITIONS LARGELY

UNCHANGED,

Along with many others, I had tinues dull and stagnant an

The fortnightly Price Current and Market Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, statos

Cotton Piece Goods Apart from a few tentative enquiries probably made in order to tes prices, our markot remain Sir.-The main lines of the unchanged, and offtake is poor argument in your loading article Mid. Am. Cotton was quote It is notified that His Honour yesterday need no endorsing, for 12.54d. in Liverpool on 7t Eg.. Sakellaride the Chief Justice has by Com-they follow such obvious truths instant, and But underlying everything, we

mission by him, in favour of 42.210.2

Cotton Yarn.-Market con Can bense the disturbances

Mr. J. R Sayer, to be a Commis-University degrece per se could sionar to administer oaths and imagine otherwise. which this modernisation, of formerly backward races must Redmond played disappointing-tako (declaratione, affirmations, bring to the national balances ofly against S. A. Rumjana in the and attestalions of honour in the an interesting experience of this there is nothing fresh to report M. A's and B. A's, an Ll.B., and No. 206. $228/235. Unsold stoc the world. These peoples who fourth round of the open singles Court, so long as he shall hold at a school I went to in my toens. Quotations 4rg nominal-N 14,200 bales, Bargains 2,500 balog yesterday and lost 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, the office of Assistant Colonial There was a galaxy of degrees, 02/216, No. 16s. $225/233

a B. So from the top to the now meot Europeans on the 6-0. In many respects the game

Woollens. Market dull. bottom, but not one of them had a

Raw Cotton. There is n teacher's certificate. Neverthe- same level of armaments, were was much akin to that botwoon for more than a century kept Green and Lo, but when Rumjahn

less, there were two men who chango to report, NOTED SOPRANO, realised that he was placing disadvantage in

could teach, because they were

Metals. Business remain in check merely by the superior himself at a

born teachers the Head and the knowledge of the West in the endeavouring to force the game latest and most scientific methods at the net, he dropped back to COMING TO HONGKONG. language and literature master, stagnant, with local prices inelit

the base-lice and played Redmond

One of America's greatest But what a wasto, among nine

Flour Market Report.-Stook Soven with knowledge of killing one's follow man. at his own game.

singers-Mabol Garrison is soon men! Gradually, however, the change Ho won the first set easily to bo board in Hongkong. She is which they could only impart to 450,800 sacks, Market. Stoad who could encourage the most $4.75 por sack; American Straigh has boon wrought, holped, no onough, but Redmond was more one of the noted artistes which the more brilliant of us; two Quotations: American Paten doubt, by a lucrative traffic in accurato in the second and after Mr. & Strok has arranged to bring backward in the onward path to 53.75 per sack; American Cat of arms from the Wost itself. Evon loading 4-1, allowing Rumjahn to to the Far East, and is due to

pull up to four-all, he took the give concerts at the Theatre learning. In my last year, we $3,65 per sack, Shanghai Flou obtained a man without any $3.60 per sack; Australian No. the latest weapons of war are no set at six-four. Sot three was Royal on June 3rd, and 5th. longer a secret terror to the keenly contested and both players Mabel Garrison's career has University Arts degree, but with $3.70 per sack; Canadian Cut of simple tribos of Africa and Asia. took full advantage of the other's been one of a long succession of a teaching diploma. He taught $3.40 per sack.

mistakes. In the fourth eot triumphs. She had seven yours me more in that your than I had Eventually, thoy, too, might be Redmond could do nothing right, as leading coloratura soprano learned in the previous four or trying their hand at emulating Rumjaha taking the set to love. with the Metropolitan Opera five. Mathematics. lost their

Company, since when she has chaotle intricacies under his hills and seashore and the stai the civilised 'nations in the use

Rumjahn did extremely well boon tremendously, auccessful in simple, direct explaining the above us at night. Unfortunatel of up-to-date death-dealing ap- to win so comfortably, though concert tours. So great is the characters of history no longer he was confined only to certai pliances. We road the other perhaps the score over-rates his demand for hor services in oratorio wore a menace and jumble of subjects, so I left school actanl day of aeroplanes succeeding in superiority. Redmond, when at and recital that she stands to day dates and incidents, but men and ignorant of much which had bac his best, brought off some delight as the foremost American soprane women like they are to-day, paid for, but most of whic subduing some recalcitrant tribos-ful passing shots, but was devoting herself entirely to con- living an interneting life which fortunately, would in any cas we became eager to learn of have been useless to me in m cort work. men on the North West Frontier hopelessly inconsletont."

It is seldom that Hongkong And so it was with other subjecte present line of work of India, But for how long will Tho, Honda-Ng

Szo-cheong gote the opportunity of hearing geography became a fino

A.M.A. such power remain only on one match was postponed until to-day, such an accomplished vocalist, glimpse of the world and its sido f

ling study of the woodland and Hongkong, May 9th, 1925, Nearby Afghanistan is there being apparently some and no doubt big houses will peoples; physiography a fascinat

misunderstanding.

welcome her to the Colony, already being

dernised.,"

ed to sag,

Yours, etc.,