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AERATED WATERS

All Water used in the manufacture of our Acrated Waters is scientifically treated and tested.

Our Machinery and plant embody all the very latest scientific improvements and the most, hygienic methods and safeguards are employed in every detail of manufacture.

At no point during the entire process of manufacture is contamination possible..

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We guarantee that all Aerated Waters as they leave our Factory are absolutely pure.

A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, Aerated Water Manufacturers.

Phone 436

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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Office Equipnient Dept.

Phone 4587.

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16-17, Connaught Road Centra

'Phone Central 1186.

The Telegraph.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1925.

TELEPHONE CHARGES.

SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 12, 1925.

DAY BY DAY,

in rates, yet precisely the reverso is happening. Subscribers are pay- Ing more now than they were bo

THE ETERNAL STARS: SHINE fore although there has been no OUT AS SOON AS IT IS DARK, Improvement and although no ENOUGH.-Carlyle. Formal public establishment of a few Company has yet been com- ploted.

The legality of the new charges

The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 28. 5.1/16d.

Mr. D. V. Steavenson returned is unquestionable, but we do sug- by the Empress of Russia. gest that as an act of good grace the telephone rates should not be Increased until such time, as the new Company is properly founded and until there is a reasonable chance of service improvement. The accounts sent out for the cur-

rant quarter are all on the new basis and doubtless many of them have been paid already, but this could be remedied by a return to the old basis next quarter, less an allowance for what has already been paid in excess of the old rates. We don't know just how much money would be involved in this difference, but we do know that the new company would gain a tremendous amount in goodwill. whereas at present it has only earn- ed criticism and resentment.

It is notified for general infor- mation that a memorial of re- entry by the Crown on Inland Lot No. 2323 (World Theatre) has been registered according to law.

It is hereby notified for general information that His Honour the Chief Justico has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Monday, 21st September, at 10 o'clock in the foronoon.

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and Inners

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What about appointing our the rumour that the bamboo art Food Controller loador of the rangement at the foot of Battery Mount Price Expedition ? Path, is to enable energotio and ambitious members of the P.W.D.

To sit on a Tariff Conference is Staff, to ascend to their daily à painful duty. work with alnority, ease and dox- terity,

When the Russians leave Can- ton they won't leave much.

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If our Angling Club could cross the mosquito with the fish, they'd be sure of a bite nearly every minute.

Oh for a camilosg Canton!

Wo're glad that Shanghai fools wall enough to accopt our chal-

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A Bolshevik novor goes where he is told until he dios.

Wait till some of these Labour Executives get paid in roubles !

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As Sir Edward Stubbs isn't to loaTo until two days after Mr. Clementi's arrival, what about temporaraily. allocating опо Governor to Kowloon, just to 000 how it works?

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Let's hope that tho British dologation to the Peking Confer- ence will prove to be the Supor-

It is notified that, at the expira-lenge to an Interport. Stomach- tion of three months, the Baptista. Reducing Contest. the Co-operative Trading Associa York and Company, Limited, and

A Ford car ran into a dray Six. tion, Limited, will, unless cause is laden with champagne in New shown to the contrary, be struck York recently. Nuts and wine! will be dissolved. off the register and the companies

Journalism may now be rock oned as one of the dangerous

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The marriage has taken place occupations," at Shanghai of Mr. G. E. Brockett, son of the late Mr. Brockett and of Mrs. Brockett, of Foochow, to Chinese bond as a guilt-odgod Investors now look upon the Miss Jessie Davy, daughter of the security. late Capt. Davy, and Mrs. Davy, of Shanghai. The bridegroom was one of Hongkong's contingent who saw service in the war.

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With the Daily Press giving over its leader column to such topics as bobbed hair and the smoking habit amongst women, it looks as if Hongkong is succoss- fully weathering the crisis.

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If you see a man waving his hands in conversation around Ice Looks as if manna foll at Don that the bee that's buzzing in his House Stroot, you may be sure caster last Wednesday,

bonnet is a humbug.

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Time for Action.· The fact that the s... Honam had to return to Hongkong on | Thursday with 'several hundred pag-

A Hongkong magistrate has Mrs. M. Stirling, President of ruled that vinegar is food. This So soon as we learn to spell the sengers who made the trip up to the Naval and Dockyard Branch probably explains some of the spur name of the latest Canton Canton by the same boat on the of the Hongkong Women's Guild faces we encounter these days. General, he gets shot and the

Ministering previous day serves to illustrate the and

Children's

whole business has to be doné League, advises that the concert

over again. absolate control which is now given by The Imperial Concert in fashion;

Hongkong plantations are now they are being exercised in the latter port by the Party on September 4 resulted denuded.

in a total of $709.41, which sum leaders of the anti-British

has been credited to the funds. agitation. The Canton Govern It would appear, judging from ment would, of course,.disclaim any our correspodence column of the responsibility for this unwarranted last two days, that there is fairly interference with shipping, which widespread resentment against the recently increased telephone charges seeing that there has been no improvement in the quality or

efficiency of the service, and we are inéined to think that the resent- ment is somewhat justified.

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Geography, Note-Canton is situated in a low lying country.

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The annual picnic of the elder Garrison Schools was held yester-dance "Tootloose," you'd did think children attending the Command

The way some of those people day afternoon at Repulse Bay they had a screw loose.

is in direct violation of Treaty The picnic was generously pro-

obligations, but it cannot expect to get out of the matter as easily as all that. If it were a question of cargo-workers and sampan-people of their own free will declining to place their services at the disposal

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vided by the army and navy and to Repulse Bay by car. the young people were conveyed scaffolding is again in evidence Signs of Normality:Bamboo, Friday children of the Garrison inside the Hongkong Hotel. Infants School will enjoy a simi- lar treat.

Now that Royalty has been ob- sorved walking through Brokors"

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The way things are going just now we can foresco a big duty on returning prosperity.

From the scarcity of rickahas may be truthfully said that the in Ice House Street these days, it

June Settlement has put many a broker on his feet.

A dollar doesn't go as far in Hongkong as it used to, but, by the Hokey Fly, it goes much faster.

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The Offices of the Supreme Alley we might expect the place The boycott deadlock invites should be remembered that when of incoming vessels, we could quito Court will be open daily from to resume its former aspect of a picking. the figure of $108 per year (the well understand how difficult. it Vacation, except on Public and

10a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Long fashionable parade.

You can only bid business rate now being charged) was first would be for the authorities to General Holidays, when the of There was a loud explosion in" pessimism, farewell with good mentioned away, back in 1922 it interfere. But what are the facts? on Saturdays, when they will be ried man absent-mindedly, gave

fices will be entirely closed, and Kowloon the other night. A mar bugs. was stipulated that that rate These people would be only too glad open from 10a.m. to poon. The the same excuse twice running. Daylight will soon be the only could only be imposed if it were to engage in their customary Long Vacation commences on the

thing Hongkong can save... shown that the service conditions labour were they permitted to do the 17th October, 1925, (both days that Government at an early date Won't it be nice when we got

20th instant and terminates on There is no truth in the story justified the increase, and that the so; but they are forcibly prevented inclusive). resolution adopted by the Legisla by labour pickets. That being the

intends auctioning several gross back from normality ? of swivel chairs. tive Council carly this year expres ease, surely. the least that can be at the V.R.C. to-night, whon some A swimming foto will be held;

Bolshevism in China is steedily. sing the Council's approval of the done is to lodge a protest with the excellent sport is anticipated. Daily Press headline. Yet it hap requiring famine relief.

"Dangers of Blasting" says a reducing the number of persons formation of a new local Company Canton Government, calling upon it The 25 yards setatch race should pened at Causeway Bay and not. to run the service, began with the to exert its utmost endeavours to the leading local swimmers have prove exciting, as practically all

Fanling, words:"Whereas the Government prevent auch interference, and entered. There will also be a

American airmen havo estab- bas had under consideration pro-thus secure observance of Treaty team race between the officers of posals for the formation of a local conditions.

H.M.S. Hermes and the H.Kished the Catorpillar Club exclus- So far, there is no V.D.C., and a water polo match ively for aviation heroes, company to nequire the undertak-evidence that the Government has between the Club and the H.K. suppose the woolly ones get a life ing of the China and Japan Tele- taken any such steps; on the con: the conclusion of the sports.

V.D.C. Dancing will take place at membership. phone and Electrie Company, Ltd. trary, the official policy practically

and

fo provide pé improve amounts to an endorsement of the telephone service,"eté The italice

labour pickets activities. Until the Canton Government takes

are ours because we desire to make

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Perhaps its as well thosd days that local radio is not a howling BUCCOSY,

The capital of Kwangtung is in Russia.

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Lots of our strikers wens to Canton because of their colourlest

oxistance. Now they are in the pink of condition.

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Now that Ico House Street has boon sprinkled with sand, we trus member of our staff with some

that there will not be so many knowledge of these "beastly gnats" The next Dog Show is to be cases of high-stopping speculators it quite clear that the Government action, in the matter, it must stand has taken the trouble to collect opened by a fanfare of trumpets slipping.

everyone blowing his own.

□ □ galy sanctioned 'the formation of condemned of "tacit acquiescence specimens in several places where

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We notice an advertisement for in the agitators' plans. This is a they swarm, and is able to make

Messrs. Oliver and Cox misun-The Greatest of all Smell Cars." the comparatively favourable re-derstood their walcome. They We have already experienced

local company on the terms of in- creased charges in return for a better service to the public.

For

all practical purposes the new Com- pany has not yet been formed at Jeast there has been no formal puls

question which not only affects

British interests, because ships or port that he has not found any of were merely invested, with the

Freedom of Cantonl cargoes of other nations are liable the malaria-carrying Anopheles,

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to similar treatment if they happen but only Stegomyia and Culex. to touch at Hongkong before 'pre-

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some of these in Hongkong but understand that the man who rings the bell while the refuso is brought out, is not included in the price.

Extracting gasoline from vége tables is the latest atunt. Another aspect of the motor cab ago.

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The gentleman who lost his. This means that dengue fever, at teeth at Repulse Bay as a result lic establishment. Since July 1st

ceeding to Canton. The time has any rate, is likely to come along of swallowing a quart of the best briny, will probably stick to beer the old company has been operating the telephone concern on behalf of come for strong united representa in the near future, once the in-in future.

fection, commences. However, it tions on the subject, coupled with the taking of such measures as the

is evident that the malaria ear- The writer of a contemporary's Cheung Chau notes states that riors exist in certain areas, and at the conclusion of a recent infancy. Or, to be orsot, still at nations concerned may dcom

continue a menace to the health meeting." the two National An- the colic stage. advisable for the restoration of free

theme were sung by those pro- .. of the community. and uninterrupted intercourse,

sont all joining hands." In these

the new company and we have just the same telephone' service as be- fore. If anything, the service is pot so good because of the strike and the absence from the Colony

of skilled workmen. That is no fault.

of the operating company, however,

The Ordinance which was passed

be that there was not sufficient

fatally.

Malaria.

We believe we

that

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Jazz, wo are told, is still in Ita

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China no longer continues to

(with the exception of the coment play a lean hand. dooring, been completed."

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If paint is a prosorvative, some are correct in stating that this days of ratranchment, why not of these young girls should live to time of the year is the period. of have warbled "Auld Lang Syne?" a ripe old

0.0 There have been a number of much malaria, what the doctors

One thing, they get plenty of A steep price does not always cases of malaria in Hongkong dur-call the aestivo-autumnal Infection.excitement in Choung Chaut, for mean that business is looking up. in June permits the newly-formed ing the past few weeks, and Still, it renews the question of the same writer assures us that Company to raise rates as from 18t

'some of these have been of the adéquate preventive measures-the July, and the fault would seem to malignant variety and have ended intensivo. clearing up of breeding This Colony always has places. It is unfortunate that the time allowed to olapse between the malarial fevers, more in evidence disorganisation of our sanitary ser

Highest among Cantons exporta passing of the Ordinance and the

at times than otherwise, but we vices at present militates against Just now are crazy-quilty. permitted increase of charges. It think the recent crop of cases calls the proper inauguration of a large was obviously the Government's in for special mention. We have scale anti-malaria campaign but it tention all through, and it was cer- received roports from several parts points out the moral of delay, and tainly thought so by the general of the island and New Territories serves to emphasise the necessity of public, that an improvement in the.

health problems of what is described as a plague tackling

Im- service should precede any increase of mosquitoes. As it happens, a mediately they arise.

Now is the time to ask your landlord for a loan to pay your compradora. 0:0

Looke as if a follow will soon have to support the Government on half an income.

Books on etiquette are painful- ly silent concerning the graceful way to scratch a mosquita bíta in public.

Mr. Edison might try his hand at inventing a noiseless argufler.

Wo'd like to give up all our faults, but then again that would make us a perfect stranger.