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True to my promise, good tolerant fellow-clubman. “I'm friends, I present you herewith, 'opin' as "ow my missus will be on the occasion of issuing my presented at Court this comin' hundredth "Mixad Grill," with season.** the

for women. 86ake on local juries. At Home, as is known, women are liable for fury service MERCIFUL IN JUDGMENT UPON THE MOST GENEROUSAND and we cannot see that there is THE FAULTS OF OTHERS ARE AL- any serious ground for not WAYS THE MOST FREE OF FAULTS following the samo rulo hore. As THEMSELVES Alghey. things are, jury servico often The Empress of Canada loft operates hardly on business Kobe on Friday afternoon, and is houses which can ill afford to loas due at Shanghai on Sunday. the services of staff members for,

The Government is inviting perhaps, days on end. In this tenders for furniture for Victoria rogard, the addition of women's Hospital and for the now Bonham STARTLING AND REMARKABLE names to the Jury List would

Road School.

FEATURES. A against which I warned you. provo a partial rolief to business

His Excellency the Governor

Those features ara my own. poople, and if some of the fair has appointed Private E. P. The first diagram is a reproduc sex were included; they would Minett, V.D., as Medical Officer tion of the famous portrait of me, naturally expect the same rights fonce Corpa, with the rank of Byce, A.R.A.R.AR.A., now in in the Hongkong Volunteer De-at the age of three, by Mr. Groene of voting at Sanitary Boaf Lieutenant, elections as present jurors enjoy.

To that oxtent, the inclusion of

women

on

St. Andrew's Mossongor wel- comes the now organist, Mr. the Jury List Rupert Baldwin, A.T.C.L., as ho would also be a step towards takes up his work at St. Andrew's the exercising of the franchise to-morrow. He comes with high to the limited extent to which

orodentials. that is possible on tho presont

On the 17th. instant, at the P.

"Indeed!" rejoined the other. "Well, I sincerely hope the jury will find her Not Guilty."

I welcome the vory sensible idea, omanating from Paris, of gowns with the name of the ombroidering ladies evening wearor. The absurd fashion hostessos cultivate of slurring over the namos of introducoes is sincerely to be deprecated. I simply bate whon, having, to mention my dinner partner by name, I have to address hor-in an incoherent mumble; or, worse still, am constrained to ask her her name straight out. Forcod

basis. Viewed from many stand-W. D.'offices, there will be offered the Loeuvre. The second, of to adopt the latter course, one points, there is much to be said for sale Shawkiwan, Inland Lot Mr. Rose-Mudder's painting, needs to be super-Petmanised to in support of the idea of having square feet of land. The upset executed at the age of 32. The Ludy

538, which contains about 1,140 now in the Tote-a-Teto Gallery, romember some such name ne woman jurars locally. The avor-price is a dollar a foot.

Euphrosyne Blennor- third, of Mr. Hackham Chis-hassot-Featherstonehaugh; and age woman bere has plenty of

elme's panel of me at present day, if one forgate it, makes a shot at spare time, some of which could Mahomed Rajas Salleh, Ordnance the

A correspondent states that which is shortly to be erected in it, and addresses her as "Lady this be usefully employed in un clerk, charged with possession of Hospital,

grounds of Bethlehem Eucalyptus Blatherskite Fother- ingaycastle," ons is most unfair. essential public servicö. In this sulphide of arsenic and potassium

ly suspected of inebriety. regard she has far fewer home chloride yesterday, is not, as According to my custom on all{

There will be no necessity. then described, an Indian. ties than her sister at Home, who

momentous occasions, I have however, for gentlemen to have wired to my professors asking for their names ombroidered on their none the less, is called upon to A note in the magazine of St. a brief mossage apropos of having raiment. A lady can always as- The ongagement is announced serve. On the point of fitness for Andrew's Church, Kowloon, says: achieved this landmark in Bri- between Evelyn: Winifred, older daughter of Capt. W. J. Thomp-jury work, there can surely be no admitted a Roman Catholic into as follows:-

During the past month we tish literaturo. Their replies are son, R.A.S.C., and Mrs. Thomp-two opinions, when we compare the Church of England. Wo hope Prof, Barmion Crampett son, of Hongkong, and Walter the womanhood of this Cohny to admit two more vory shortly. Charios, older son of the late Mr. with the averago women juror at

Heartiest congratulations. Is it a boy or a girl 2 J. Clark and Mrs. Clark, of

The Bishop of Victoria, will Clacton-Sen, England.

Home. At any rate, there is license Mr. J..H. Hunt, C.B.E., sufficient reasonability in the ideuas Diocesan Reader of St. And to warrant its possibilities being at 11 a.m: This ceremony had to rew's, Kowloon on Whit Sunday, explored, and we put forward che be postponed last month owing above points purely in that spirit. #noss. Possibly our readers have

A Grand Al Fresco Concert opinions on the subject." If so, will be held on the Kowloon we shall be happy to give, the Vicarage ennis Court,

The Telegraph,

SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926.

"

THE CLAIMS OF WOMEN.

on

Prof. Pifflinger Roftenbleiter. Sorves you jolly well right.

Dr. Feign Crank-Strongly fancy Lustueru each way."

collar.

Prof. Linnaeus Loborwurst.- Your readers have my sincerest certain her partner's name on his sympathy.

Dr. Bulkley Stodger.-As a 100 mixed grille is absolutely lifelong vegetarian, the idea of nauseating to me.

publicity through the medium of Monday, May 31st, in aid of-Your wire.not reply-paid. Must Prof. Anaesthesius Bilge water. the Church Missionary Associa-decline answer it. tion and St. Peter's Church repair fund. The tickets will be $1, and $1,000 is aimed ut.

our columus.

Motoring and "Crime.""

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This week-end we welcome tho official opening of spring, and Beasley Tosher, has kindly writ- that sweet, but liotic singer, Mr. ten the following verses for me. The somewhat lugubrious .note

Hail, smiling Spring! Though our bronchial tubes

are wheezing

An interesting suggestion has

A member of a Simple Life sect which he strikes If the first veres has been arrested in a town in is doubtless occasioned by the boen put forward by the Rev.

St. Andrews, Kowloon, having alad only in a shirt. I imagine ing from a severe head-and-chest North Italy for walking about fact that he is at present suffer-. Copley Moyle to the affect that

recently received a gift of u the time has come hen women differing problems and the process given the one then in use to St. Simple, Life chappies is that for the first time in his life, part- Changing days bring with them Frontal for the Holy Table, has that one of the tenets of these cold, contracted through having, should be given the right to vote of trying to set things right rust Andrew's Theological Hostel,

breaches of decorum constitute ad his hair and shaved his baard. and to sit on public Councils and an eternal one-an ever active Capton, which is under the trousers..

trend towards betterment. Boards in this Colony,, Assum-comparatively fow years ago our

A Church Missionary Society. ing the cloctorate, were being en-crime statistics included none of larged, we can see no good reason with the introduction of the mator Happy Valley, Mr. F. E. Booker the offences which have come In the Running Pool Bogey at why women should not, in some car and fast road traffic, yet to won (3 up, other scores being way be included amongst thoso day in England the number of Messrs. W. H. Edmonds (one up), on whom the franchise were te-offences under the heading of H. Beardall 13 down, C. A.

Grimes aud W, McKay 4 down motoring is growing to such an ing conforred, but we know of inoxtent as to throw out of useful- There wore 37 entries. circumstance warranting theness, for comparison purposes, the

I am much relieved to hear that

torily settled, and the 2nd prex. the threatened strike of hot-cross bun-designers has been satisfac- will find me, as asuul, browsing upon my favourite pabulum. The contention of the designers was that; since they can only work one day in the year, they ought to be paid at 365 times the rate

in which he appealed to the bakers to "Dough unto othors as you would others should dough nato you" that the latter. capitulated.

Still, in manner most dis-

pleasing:

Though the mercury's at "free-

zing.

And onr nosos busy sneezing: Yet we feel constrained to

singTM**

Sing and sing like anything-

Hail, smiling Spring! Hail, time of Love!

What though bleak March

winds are snerting

In a way that's far from sport-

ing,

Wa, to thickest clothes resort"

ing,

Lightly turn to thoughts of

courting.

And wo pipe, like am'rous dove From the elm-tree high above, Haif, time of Lova?"

lea that any extensive change is annual statistics of crime, unless As Mr. F. P. R. Jumes, of the fixed for ordinary bun-designors, likely to be made in the near Thore is a growing realisation at cycle along Caine Road, when bakers, however, was that since a very careful analysis is made. P.W.D., was riding his motor The position" taken up by the futuro. As matters now are, the Home that a revision of the laws near the junction of Peel Streat, the hotcross bun-designers only Sanitary Board is the only bady rospecting motor traffic is really he knocked down a Chinese girl worked one day a year, it wasn't to which the elective principle present result far too easily in girl, he collided with a coolie thing. It was following a ringing desirablo, because those laws at In swerving to try and avoid the worth while paying them any applies, and evon in this instance making convicted persons out of who was carrying crockery ware.spcoch by the malcontents' leader, only two of the members our motor drivers. The problem No one was seriously hurt.

of amending those laws and yet are thus chosen. The electorate retaining the deterrent features of also is strictly limited, and them is ono to which our modern ordered the closing of the ceme- The Governor-in-Council has we have heard nothing suggesting law-makers will have to apply tory at Sher O which was situated the likelihood of its

themselves, and it is a problem about a quarter of a mile to the being extended. The point that has just ancestors had no concern. The Shok O. No. burials had ever with which our slower-moving north-east of the old village of arisen to cause a postponement above thought is inspired by the tuken place in this cemetery. A of the ponding election concerns statistics for England and Wales, situate to the west of Shok. O already broken a ten-pot and four Lot the clouds their deluge.

publication of the latest crime now cometery of about two acres, the eligibility of certain people to in which it is shown that there village, lius boen provided. vate the deferring of the ballot has been a remarkable diminu has nothing to do with any

tion of non-indictable offences proposal to enlarge the'electorate. diminution which would have Day, and as far as the Colony is and irrepressible, parvenu to a during tho present century--a) To-day, May 1st, is Labour "I'ni'opin","observed the matey Of course the time will come been even more striking had iooncerned thore are no celebra- when the whole question of not con for motoring offences. tions of an official nature applying or extending the elective than thore, were before the war tions, although the occasion is the Wing Ou Company (Cantin

There are less indictable offonces amongst local labour organiza- Is notified that the name of principle to seats on public bodies and when the increase in popula being observed as a holiday by Limited, has en struck off the will have to be faced, and when tion is taken into account this is two or three unious, the Barbers the Register.

Club:

Overboard at a suburban Radio, "Does your new listening-in set give you satisfaction?"

"No: between them they've

| soup-plates."

*

Hail, gentle Spring ! Waft your balmy zephyrs porous Stuck behind us and before us; · And your Salvel sing in chorus.. Let the gales our faces sting-.

fling-

All we ask is, please don't bring

HAIL, Kej tls Spring!

Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles The P. & O. ss. More, from on the 30th. April, ut &am

It is notified th it, at the expira-

unless cause it shown to the contrary, bo struk off the register and the company will be dissolved. A collision between a simpan

that day arrives we imagine that of affairs. It is incontosible that the headquarters of the chief. At a special Sunday afternoontion of thres in me, the Jupan

an eminently satisfactory state Guild included. Fings are up at the claims for women will have to the duties of the police have in-guilds, and banquets on a modest concert in the Town Hall Guz:tte Compa17, limited, will, be considered. That, however creased enormously since the ad-scale will be the order of the day Shanghai, at which the Municipal opens up large issues, which are suggested that if they were not

vent of the motor car, and it is with some of them. not likely to come up for decision to preoccupied with the mis

Orchestra appeared, Mrs. Bowes Smith, of Hongkong, was the vocal yot awili. On the point of demeanours of motor'sts they been announced that over 20,000, the N. C. Daily News says:--- New York, April 8-It has solols, and of hor contributions women serving on public bodies, could turn, with profit to the 000 automobiles are in use on the "Mrs. Bowes-Smith sang with all and a trading junk occurred off it might ba practicable to throw and higher side of police work marking an ineroass of 2,360,670,-first, four songs froin "When resulted in the former capaizing community, to the more social highways of the United States, the charm one remombora of her, Kennedy Town yesterday, which cortain senta open for this At any rate, it is felt that matters or 13.4 por cont over last year. Wo Wore Very Young," very and the occupants being thrown purpose, even before the electivo have not been managed in an The ratio of automobiles to the happily sut to music by Fraso into the water. They were picked principle is conceded. At present, motorists are so prolific a source persons in the United States, at required; and in the second part and handed over to a water police idoal way when motoring and population is one to every 5.3 Simson, of which an encore was up by the steam launch Shing On, we believo, the Board of Education of "crimo.'

the cost to every man, woman those lovely old songs, and child of $117 yearly to keep Water" and "Cherry Rips." Her damage by the loss of the sampan Allan launch. No lives were lost, but

is the only body which has a lady member; but there can be littlo) doubt that women could rendor: useful service on other bodies as well,

Another idea which may bo worthy of consideration

ig

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand 28.2.9/16d, Lighting-up

6.50 p.m.

the 20,030,030 motor cars running. diction was particularly good in ad goods amounts to $400. The average cost for the owners the first sot, and her voice very

$700 for each

car. Ap swoot and expressive all through." proximately 4,000,000 automobiles At

A Chinose the eighth

was arrested. are produced yearly by all the symphony concert, to be held on with

subscription yesterday on the Tung On wharf factories in tho. United States, of the following Thursday, Mrs. pistols, one revolver, and 99 two Mauser autoinatio which $250,000,000 worth pro Bowes Smith was again to be the rounds of ammunition in his oxported abroad.

possession.

vocalist.