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HONGKONG, 23rd May, 1925.
AIR AND SEA TRAVEL.
A pound a pound" is the rate
Empire Day.
MIXED
ד' .
- ASHLEY STERNE-
GRILL
ASTHOR OF 4 TWISTED TALES -
A new line in burglary has As my notos are likely to bo recently been inaugurated by the only historical record of the thiovos who broke into the pre-venturo it is as woll that they.
should be as comprehensive
possible, and
80 1 think it advisable to remark that, in addition to the articles I mentioned last week, the Profos-
his kit the following:
1 garden rollor.
1 lawn mower.
1 tin weed-killer.
doz. best mixed flowerpots..
A woman living at No. 15mises of a well-known dealer in Wyndham Street attempted to foreign stamps and cleared off
with' commit suicide yesterday by
✡ raro and
valuable drinking Lysol. She was taken
collection. to the Government Civil Hospital Besthotic side of burglary is beingsor is further including amonget While I am glad to soo that the
This year Empire Day falls on
developed along with the purely, a Sunday and as a consequence
A fire an Homuntin yesterday merconary side, I forseo that, the to-morrow's celebrations will be involved three matsheds and fashion once having been sot, somewhat curtailed. All tho osused damage to the extent of ontorprising burglars with a nice same, the opportunity will doubt $300. A piece of firowood falling tasto in objets de vertu will less bo takon throughout the amongst some shavings started specialise in stealing collag Empire to stress the duties and the blaze.
tions, and I shall never be sur- prised to awake obligations of citizenship and also
one morning and find to emphasiso the responsiblities
my unrivalled Plague is reported to be pre- collection of hotel spoons missing. which lie upon the British people valent in the east and north Similarly, the youthful criminal to maintain the Empire intact and suburbs of Canton. More than will no doubt adopt the vogue of help in every way possible to thirty persons are said to have his parents, and Smith Minor uphold the best traditions of the died from the disease. Many of may came down to breakfast one past. The Empiro Day move-tho residents have removed to morning during the summor ment is largely due to the veteran other places. Earl of Meath, who for many years now has laboured hard for
1 watering-can.".
1 pr. lamp-scissors (for killing
slugs)
"
1 scarecrow (this in addition to Frau Rottonbleiter)..
1 ton fish manuro...
1 thing-for-taking-stones-out-
of-horses' hoofs,
Having lain for so long neglected, the Professor is very rightly assuming that, should he be fortunate enough to find. thom, of doing up before they are in a fit condition to be brought home.
holidays and discover that he is the poorer by a score of birds' the recognition of the day in all A man was found dead on the family of silkworms, and a price-the Gardens will require a bit
oggs, a dozen conkers, an entire British possessions, and who has hillside above Wongneichong less record of the names and num also consistently urged the teach-yesterday, with a rope tied round bors of many of our most esteemed ing of true patriotism in schools. his neck. Appearances point to and popular railway engines. He is now well over eighty years his having taken his own life. of age, but is still hale and hearty. There was only a pawaticket in though he suffered a hard below his possession. when he lost his son in the war. Another personality who comes to mind at this time, when thinking
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The proprietor of a travelling menagorie has just insured the life of a Bengal tiger which is The "Easing" bathing bosch credited with having eaten, three of Empire Day, is our popular at Stonecutter's Island will be human beings. I hear on good Prince of Wales, now again on a opened to-day. Launchos will authority at the earnest entreaty tour of distant parts of the loave Blake Pier, at 4 p.m. on of their advisory physician, the Empire which he will one day be Saturdays, and Sundays, and on called upon to rule. Wherever Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5.15 he goes, he wins the love and p.m. Monday next being a holi- loyalty of all with whom he day, a special launch will leave comes into contact, and these ex- Blako Pier at 4 p.m... tended tours of His Royal High- noss have an immense value in consolidating various parts of the Empire and in strengthening the ties that bind Greator Britain to
the Throne.
An order for the confiscation of
nine revolvera, nine MauserS pistols and 1,420 rounds of am-
munition, was made by Mr. E. W. insurance company concerned Hamiltoo, at the Kowloon Magis- agreed to waive the usual preli- tracy this morning. The arms minary medical examination. officers on board the Empress of and ammunition, discovered by Russia, were handed to the police by the Captain.
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON.
A plucky young fellow named
Crichton
With Jack Dempasy once took
a glove fichton;
But the very first bout. Saw his teeth all knocked out, And now he's got nothing to
bichton."
for high-class steamer accom- to confine thoir interest in declared an interim dividend of Advancement of Scienco for the
Oxford meeting next year, it'be- hovos qur scientists to celebrato
"Good Business,"
We encountered the other day of fare suggosted by Dr. Bugh the remarks of a writer who was who piloted the big naval dirig- Attempting to show that it is ible Los Angeles in its initial good in the practice of business false to assume that whatever is flight across the Atlantic, for the is therefore good in all other Mesars. Carroll Bros. advise us proposed new commercial airship human activities. He made the that they have received a cable company, In other words, bis point that because autocracy of from Singapore stating that the des is a pound sterling for labour are useful in industry, it por lb. but that the price of shares management and division of price of rubber is now 95 conts each pound avoirdupois of the is fatal to apply the same prin- have not dropped very much in passenger, Such rates, it is in tendency, he says, in athletics. is stocks it is noticed that rates nounced that the Prince of Wales eiples to other walks of life. The consequence, in fact, on several. Since it has been officially an- teresting to note, are no more to develop a few champions and have advanced a little. It is also has accapted the presidency of than many passengers now pay encourage the rest of the people announced that Innas" have the British Association for the
sport to watching it; whilst five per cent, modation, and there should be no in politics, there is often a difficulty in getting thom in willingness to invost loaders with return for the novelty, smooth-power, only to find that they Among Colebrants of Empire the occasion in a fitting manner. often abuse it. There is doubtless Day to-morrow, the Bobool- Something indicative of both ness and speed of serial travel. a deal to be said for the stand-fchildren will not be behind say.
loyalty and scientific advance. The attractiveness of the ides, point put forward. Some day we body else. Pupils of St. Joseph's met 19, I think, clearly needed; may learn that the best sport is Collage have an opportunity of and if our cuemists can manage it however, coes. not imply the like the one in which the majority expressing their idoas on then time, and failing any more lihood of airships rivalling liners can take part personally; that significance of the day in a special suitable proposal, I would numbly as passenger-carriers. It would the duties of citizenship cannot essay contest. Various troops of suggest that the Prince's instal- be delegated and that freedom the Boy Scouts are also to havelation should be signalised by a tako a thousand huge airships, is worth some sacrifice of effic-polebrations of their own. At Royal salute of twenty-one ex- making round wockly trips, toliency in government. That a thing the 6 o'clock ovening service at
ploded atoms. carry one season's tourist rush is good businous" is no proof St. John's Catheral to-morrow at
From that it is a good way of doing which the children will attend in from the United States
advertisement to everything.
connection with the Empire Day column of, a weekly musical observances the preacher will be journal Icull the following:-- the Rev. Mr. Waldegrave.
Two Basses-Urgently quired for Eastor. Apply &c."
Had I been the advertiser I should have felt constrain to add: P. 5. And for goodness' sake don't forget the corkscrew.
Europe traffic which is now handled by a few dozen liners making a round trip, or a trip THAT BRASS BOWL. and a half, a month. But even
apart from that consideration, it
THE EFFECT OF PUBLICITY.
“PICTURESQUE HONGKONG,"
A CHARMING BROCHURE.
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TO A FICKLE LADY. My Lady April; what a flirt
you are l
".
At nine a.m. you greet me with
a smile;
Umbrellaless, I start to walk
the mile
'Twixt home and office. But
I've not gone far When, lol your smiles disperss
and dark frowns mar The contour of your erstwhile
pleasing dial;
A shower descende upon my
new silk tile,
And cold and wet, I board a
"tramway our
Or, it may chance you start
the day with tears.
I don my thickest coat, and
thenceforth stew
In torrid heat; for scarce ten
minutes bo
Away, ere-dash it all- your smile appears.
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It seems to me that what-
soo'er I do You always make an April
fool of me.
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Laoe that the Guild of Meroun- agitating for a six-hour day. All tile Clarks in San Francisco is
I can say is that if the 'Frisco clerk is anything like the brand we stock over here, the suggested working hours would just afford him nice time for lunch and a gamo af dominoes.
'I didn't know that Vienna was exactly what one would call a lady had been heavily fined there prudish city until I road that a
for wearing a skirt which exposed too much stocking. This is clearly a case of yet another in- justice to woman. Even a cow in Vienna is allowed to show her. calves.
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Therd has recently arrived in London from the Congo a pigmy elephant,only 316 feet high. Only on one previous occasion, many years ago, has a specimen of this strange croature been scon "in England, and naturally the new arrival has excited keen interest As I anticipated, that famous among our zoologists. My learned Egyptogist, Prof. Pillinger Rot-friend. Prof. Barmion Crumpett, tenbleitor, has succeeded in col-
is pointed out that there is not enough helium in the world,
The bowl, which was tho sub. working all sourcos at maximum ject of a charge of unlawful pos- production, to supply one por session against a Chinese the cent. of the airships that would Magistracy, has found a claimant other day at the Centrall
The "boost Hongkong" move-acting within the week all the be needed to cope with this in Mr. G. Soper, of No. 5 ment should be given a distinct traffic. So it would appear that Magazino Gap Road. It will be lift forward by the appearance of
rocalled that an attempt was Picturesque Hongkong"" an ox the dirigible airship will never made by a Chinese to sell the tromoly artistic brochure which, be able to carry more than a bowl to Sergeant Chester Wood, by letterpress describe and depicta nogligible fraction of the pass-who promptly arrosted the man the scenic beauties of our little ongers crossing the Atlantic. on suspicion when he tried to island home. This booklet. (a torm which appears somewhat When trans-Atlantic aeroplane Owing to the lack of evidence, inadequate in this instance) is the passenger services become howovor, the man was discharged outcome of the joint labours of by Mr. H. R. Butters, but since Mr. Denis H. Hazell, a clever fossible, a different story may be then newspapar accounts of the photographer, and a local resident equipment required for his ex told, for thore would need to be case had been read by Mr. Soper, who hides his identity under the pedition to
of
sell it to him for $2.
search for and
no limit to the number
who got into communication with letters "Y. O, P." The lattor, who excavate the Hanging Gardons flivvors" of the air carrying a identified the bowl as his own.
Sergeant Wood and eventually writes with an obvious knowledge of Babylon, and he hopes to be
of local matters in clear and well away in a few days time, few passengers at a time. But The Chinoso was arrested for concise style, supplies the Fore- the day when aerial travel will the second time, and the case word, which is a model of its bo developed on organised lines McElderry as we left the Court. graphic illustrations are the work was being heard by Mr. S. B. B.kind; whilst the thirty photo- for, say trans-Atlantic service,
of one who has a happy knack of selecting effectivo "hits" which still appears to be some way off,
convey vivid impressions of the and in the meantime there is the
scones selected. The object of definite opinion of exports that
the brochuro is to show
ships of the air will never rival
that Hongkong ranks amongst the world's beauty spots, and ships of the sea in carrying
Cairo, May 22. though it is admitted that pho- capacity. No. doubt, as
time
An Egyptian lawyer named tographs and descriptions are Shashini has also boon arrestod mero shadows and silhouettes of goos
Wo shall
witnose:
in connection with the murder of the roal thing," we can say that marvellous strides in aeriall the Sirdar-Reuter.
that object is amply realisod. The
on:
SIRDAR'S MURDER
ECHO.
was one of the first to sook da in- terview with this rare pachy- derm, but unfortunately he was directed to the wrong address, and in consequence of his failing. eyesight spent a considerable time examining a rather largo tomcat, whose tail ho mistook for the pigmy elephant's trunk. Upon finding, however, that the tall refused to grasp the bun which he offered it, the Professor wazed very indignant, and
bounced out of the house, loudly
declaring that the alophant was a forgery and of no use or interest" to zoologists except as a paper- weight.
booklet is very effectively bound informative. The publishers (Yo and its format is most attractive. Olde Printoria, Ltd.) and pro- On the cover is a ploturo of ducers alike are to bo oon- Hongkong by night, whilst its gratulated on the results attained. pages contain a very varied Copies of the production are now selection of illustrations showing on sale at local book storos at $5- the chief characteristice of the oach. Our hope is that thoso, island-all real photographs done, responsible for this charming in sepia tinte and lightly attached brochure may find time and In to the pages. The descriptive clination to produce a companion matter accompanying cash photo- volume dealing with Kowloon
graph je well-written and quite and the Now Territories.
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