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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
KE WHO HATH NOT A DRAM OF
sions of others she would just as soon koop out of the Longuo altogether, and there have been similarly obdurate and implacable POLLY IN HIS MIXTURE, HATH sentiments to the contrary uttered POUNDS OF MUCH WORSE MIX- by France, Peland and Spain, TURE IN HIS COMPOSITION. = Britain, so far as its official Atti-Charles Lamb.
Tho health return for Thursday
tudo is concerned, soome to 'bo the only influential nation with freedom of action shows one Chinese case of ty
phoid fover.
MIXED
ASMLEY STERNE "
GRILL
-- AVTHOR, OF -
BENAVISTED TALES -
Apropos of my last week's his own. He rooms quite un- and there is tremendous
remarks. concerning the ephe-happy about it, in spite of the force in the argument that the
MIS. Bun Yat-sen left Hong-moral nature of New Year resolu- fact that the author had duly an- British delegates should go kong by the President Jefferson tions, I have just heard of a sadnounced that all the characters case which proves that these in the story are purely fictitious. absolutely unfettored to work for yesterday for Shanghai.
annual resolves are quite futile, Of course, there is no copyright that reconciliation which is so
The P & O. sise Malwa, from whether we keep them or whether in a name, and hence we serial obviously desirable. If Britain Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles we don't. A sober and temperate writers occasionally give offence: young man one year rosolved, as where none is intended. When officially adopted the attitudo that on the 5th March, at 9'a.m.
a matter of discipline, to drink in this column my masterly. this it would not at
stago
his" nightly sodawater neat, in-serial- "Mouldy Martha, the countenance the admission to The prize distribution in constead of diluting it, as was his Macclesfield Murderess" was noction with the Sacred Heart custom, with whisky. The direct appearing, I had no idea that the permanent membership of the English Sohool is to take place at result of this act of self-denial name was anything more than Council of any other nation than St. Patrick's Club at 3.30 p.m. to-was that, at the end of the year, a figment of my imagination. Germany, it would deprive its morrow.
he had acquired such a passion But apparently Mrs Moldeigh for this useful but insipid beverage Marthagh (to whoso Christmas delegates of the power of thoirt
A delightful fancy dress dance that he had to be put away in a party I referred last week) thinks uncertain vote a power which
was given at the roof garden of Home for Uninebriates. Here he that I deliberately pilloried her, might possibly be exerted for the the Hongkong Hotel last evening felt the necessity of making a and at the moment of writing hor everlasting good of the League under the auspices of the Kow-new resolution to give up drink-solicitors have sent me a writ of
loon Cricket Club.
ing raw sodawater and for the of habeas corpus, a bill of attain- and for European peace.
future to adultorato it with der, a mortgage, a distringas, a British opinion is that Germany
whisky. This, of course, left power of attorney, a decree nisi, A large crowd is expected to him precisely where he was the alone should be admitted-Mr.
a caveat emptor, and a jury eum»' attend Off Day" at the Raco- Baldwin has confessed as much-course this afternoon. The re- year beforo, except that he had mons. I am only waiting to see forfeited a whole yourful of if any more documents come but, seeing the inevitability of sults and betting figures will ap-whisky. I can't tell you how along before sending the whole mad he was when this was pointed lot to the King's Proctor with a discord and the possible break-pear in pur second edition.
out to him. Not until "Mixed smart note asking him to inter- up of the League if there is a
A Chinese female has been sont Grill" is printed on asbestos, at vene and abate this nuisance. persistence in that attitude, the
to the Kowloon Hospital after any rate. Government has asked for dis- having been bitten by a dog, near crationary powers for its delegates Kowloon City. The dog has been in the hope that their freedom sent to Kennedy Town for ob-of a hitherto unknown fairy story by Hans Anderson comes the will avert a catastrophe. Know-
news of another literary find ing the calibre and merit of those' His Excellency the Governor which should cause equally in- delegates-Sir, Austen Chamber-has, under instructions from the tonse rejoicing in juvenile circles. lain and Viscount Cecil-we find Secretary of State for the Colonies, My Cairo "correspondent writes recognised Mr. J. T. Bagram as me that in the process of digging no fault with the decision." We Vice-Consul for Siam at Hong-up the Sphinx for transmission to agree with the majority opinionkong. of Britain, but we can also agree
servation.
His Excellency the Governor
has appointed Company Sergeant- Major H. C. Macnamara to be Second Lieutenant in the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
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Close upon the recent discovery
Professor Pifflinger Rottenbluiter they unearthed a hitherto un- known proposition by that well-
Mr. Euclid. A cursory perasal of the MS. he goes on to say}} A widow living at No. 3, Loe shows that the new proposition Yuen Street, has reported to tho is every bit as charming, whimsi- police that sometime between cal, and entertaining as those March 3rd, and 4th, a box, con-which have already endoured Mr. taining money and jewellery to Euclid's name to every schoolboy the value of $457, was stolen from in the kingdom. It deals with her tubicls.
Q.E. D."
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A NASAL ENGAGEMENT. We've fallen out, my nose and I, Lifelong companions though
we've been:
Bosom-friends, you might say,
I ween,
But that my nose has none-I
don't know why!
"Let's take a walk, my nose,"
said 1;
"E'on in the cold 'tis good to
go a-suuning!"
I said a walk; but soon my
nose was running!
I panted after, gasping, "Hip
there! hi!"
=
We bandied angry words, I and
my nose,
Till cried I, at the climax of
our tiff:
"Oh, you be blowed!" and
drew my handkerchief: And that's how two old
comrades came to blows.
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In view of the prominent,part which Dr. Anaesthesius Bilge- water is now playing in those
Sir Austen Chamberlain and with the Government's attitude. His Excellency the Governor known writer for boys, the late
has appointed Mr. Arthur Dýar Both British delegates are men Ball to be editor of, and to pre- Mr. Stanley Baldwin have un-
of high standing, able to influence pare, an edition of the regulations doubtedly made out a very strong case in favour of leaving the Bri-and lead, and their past services in force in the Colony on the 31st
December, 1925. Lish delegates to Geneva entirely to the cause of European' concord,
inspire the hope that their freedom free to vote as they think best on the question of increasing the of action will result in their being number of permanent seats on the able to hold together the almost Council of the League of Nations.parting strands of the tie woven at Locarno. This is the first! British opposition to the suggus- tion that three or four other great tost of that tie, and Britain's weight us a free-lance night nations should be given permanent seats at the same make all the difference. time as Germany, is based on the
Free Trade Vindicated. fooling that such an act would not.
the complementary angles of be playing the game to Germany"] An interesting side-light on the
irregular polygons in the author's because it would be an off-setting of Industries Act is provided by application, of the Safeguarding
most amusing manner, and after The engagement is announced a laughable argument showing move by those who wish to keep the opposition of shoe manufac of David Evans, eldest son of the that these angles are neither Germany a negligible quantity in turors to the request by upper late Mr. N. R. and Mrs. Evans of bigger nor smaller, nor even equal the councils of Europe. That is leather manufacturers for a duty Talley, Liandilo, Carmarthen-to, two right angles, he naively
of 33.1/3 per cont. on imported hire, and Vera Phyllis, youngest dismisses the whole affair with notes, I readily respond to the where the British opposition box calf. It is not denied that daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. the phrase, all of which; my request of a reader to give a few begins and ends. It might be all tariff on leather would not be a Stanley, of Kennedy Road, Hong-little ones, is absolute punk. particulars of this famous physi-
cist and chemist. to the betterment of the Lengue's good thing for the leather manu-kong.
facturer, but it is being contended
Born some 50 or 100 years ago influence for good if its Council that the public ought not to be
Contrasting the looks of English of poor but dishonest parents, he were enlarged by the granting of made to pay for the leather The Netherland Consul Gen- 'LION'' MOWER FITTED WITH
permanent seats to Spain, Poland; The head of one of Northampton'a kang reports to have remitted to omenitem that beauty is only Poughder and Dr. Beauchamp manufacturers lack of enterprise, eral for South China in Hong-girls with their characters an received his earliest knowledge American journalist respectfully of physics from Dr. Gregory EXTRA WIDE SIDE WHEELS AND Brazil and China, but to proceed biggest firm of boot manufacthe Foreign Office in the Hague skin-deep. Thinking this over in Spills, and of chemistry from Pro-
FIVE KNIVES.
with that enlargement just "at turers declares that the suggested the sum of $1,197,52 or Guilders the light of modern facial techni-fessor Lynn C. Doyle and Sir
9' $50. 11" $ 55.
this juncture opens up so much tariff would certai ly injure the 1,727.94 for relief amongst tho
hix teons he made several laud- room for suspicion and distrust, boot industry, especially the ex-sufferers from the autumn and que I have been stimulated to Ferrus Oxhide. When only in
port trade, by placing its greatest winter floods in the Netherlands. remark in parenthesis
Beauty, fair maid, is but skin-able but abortive attempts to ex- that it has been other than wise competitors, the Colonial manu-
deep, they say:
plode the atom, but only succeed. RANSOME'S
to raise it, Britain did not ruise facturers, in a better position,
Passengers departing for théi Yet, as Iscan your face, I'm dd in blowing up the family because in must instances they
bathroom. When the electron ANGLO PARIS' FITTED WITH it, neither has Britain inspired would be able to get their raw north, by a.s. Empress of Asia
driven to guess. Whether or not you own that was discovered some years later, THE SINGLE SOREW ADJUSTMENT any other nation to raise it, but material tax free. In addition, yesterday included Mr. and Mrs.
he made similar fruitless endeav magic trait. Spain and Poland say that if he says, it would cripple the home B. D. F. Beith, Mr. A. R. Blinko,
ours to explode that, too, in the Industry, for it would mean rais Mr. A. W. Buck, Mr. A. W.
course of which experimente he Germany is to be given il
unfortunately blew out all his permanent seal, they ought to being prices, which would in turn Burkill, Mr. A. L. Davies, Major reduce consumption. Far from M. Garibaldi, Mrs. Lemurchand, given permanent seats as well. reducing unemployment, it would Mrs. C. Russell-Brown, Mr. and Liberal and Labour opinion in have the opposite effect, as the Mrs. Laing, and Mr. C. Sokoloff. numbers employed in upper" Britain, and the bulk of public leather manufacture are very
Mr. R. J. Remedios, one" of opinion generally, is strongly small compared with those on- the oldest residente in this against doing anything that will played in the boot industry: Colony; yesterday celebrated his col Germany's admission to the Actual labour costs for the leather
for the uppers of a pair of boots Jubiloc in the service of the League of its moral value for vary front 3d. to 6d., whilst for a Mercantile Bank of India.
joined the old Chartered Mercan- In one of our daily papers a brain to the solution of various that country, or anything that complete pair of boots they vary tile Bank of India, London, and reader has boon complaining that problems in wireless, and has just will broak down the spirit of from 2s. Id. to 4. 6d. The boot China, in the year 1876, at the age the name of a dospicable villain perfected a
manufacturer therefore Mays it'
from the Government in a serial story running in tho machine for broadcasting absolute internationel co-operation in can readily be seen how detri- of 17. Europe that has been manifest mental would be the effect of Central School and has worked same journal is identical with silence.
has which he since the signing of the Locarno putting a tax on his raw material.his way to the position of chief
Mr. Baldwin has always said clark,
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agreements. And we believe that that he is against taxing raw occupying ever since 1884. Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Sir materials, and it will be interest- Austen Chamberlain are bothing to see whether this application Another big sucdeas was scored for a duty on leather is acceded by the Hongkong A.D.C., whon genuinely anxious to
tp. Whether it is or not, there they again presented Lord accordance with that public can be no two opinions on the Dunaany's
to a larga opinion, but ure, at the same point that, no matter what other audience, at the Theatre Royal, time, keen on doing all they can offects it may have, any tax on last evening. The piece is a imports falls, in the last resort, triumph of amateur acting, and to placate and reconcile the on the consumer,
is one of the most successful conflicting standpoints of the
plays the Club has produced. Excellent singing, and alluring | nations primarily concerned with
His Excellency the Governor Oriental dancing are interwoven the outcome of the forthcoming)
hasro-appointed provisionally and with the play, and the actors Geneva meeting. On the one subject to His Majesty's pleasuro, carry off their roles with much hand, Germany has theatened the Hon. Sir II. E. Pollook, K.C., credit. The scones and lighting| desired, that if her permanent admission to be an Unofficial Mombor of the leave nothing to he
Executive Council for a further and a well balanced orchestra to the Council is mado in com-period of five years, with effect contributes to the success of the
pleco. pany with the permanent admis-from 9th March, 1926.
A
Of deep integumental loveli,
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For many years he was head quinine-ammoniator to Boot's, & post he only relinquished on the of outbreak of war to take over the responsible and highly technical
For, womanliko, you've fled to wisdom-teeth.
subterfuge. Involving eyebrows, chooks,
nose, mouth and chin: And 'neath thoso dumps powder, lipstick, rouge. I'm hanged if I can tell
you've a skin!
if duty of orienting spurs from now- ly gazetted cavalry subalterns. Latterly he has devoted his great
SWEEPS
ד ני
most remarkable
There are chimney sweeps and brooms that sweep und ships that
Sweep the sea.
But, the Club and Valloy Racecourse sweeps are greater than all these. There are sweeps that run to thousands and others only tens: There are those got up by gilded clubs and some in filthy deus.
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No matter where they come from, be they rich or be they poor, They each and every one of them have followers by the score.. The lordly tulpan of the Peak, the lowly ricksha man, Invest their cash in tickota-or steal thôm if they can.
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"To thoau who hath it shall be giv'n,” is just the way with sweeps," Cow all the prizes seem to go to those who now have heaps. It's only mugs like you and I-the 'reat deserving men-, Who miss the hundred thousandth chance by one, or two er ten
Hongkong, March, tib, 1920.
DINTY.
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