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SATURDAY,

DAY BY DAY

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. D. W. Tratman' to be Official Receiver in Bankruptcy.

MIXED GRILL

A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne

the passing of the Sultanate; the general spread of Western ideas and the breaking up of the power

TEMPTATIONS ARE A FILE WÜçir of the Ottoman Empire there

Wilk

RUB OFF MUCH OF THE BUST OF SELF come novitably, as diminution of CONFIDENCE-Fenelon the power of Mohammedanism, as an organised religion. It has been one of the features of the

Since this scheme to move religion that its adherents, irres- pective of their differing nations. It is horeby notified that the Covent Garden Market to a more name of the C, E Richardson & convenient site has been started. lities, have remained a political Co. (Swatow); Limited, has been I am hopeful that other schemes for re-arranging London will bo entity and that the fact that they struck of the Register.

Take formed In due course.. wore Muslims counted far more than the fact that they were either Mr: Verhoma Showaram, the Kensington Gardens, for example. proprietor of the Pionbar Silk Thy're simply wasted where they Turks, Arabians, Egyptiane or Store, is to arrive in the Colony are next door to Hyde Park Why shouldn't, they be transplant- Indians. Mohammedanism has from ludia by the s.s. Coblenz on ed to the City and help to brighten been an intensely militant a pleasure trip to China and that up a bit? Why should they

and the history of its a religion, fights and vendettas against E Excellency the Governor has Christian communities has been a appointed Rev. G. R. Lindsay to be have always felt that our Chief

blot on the name of religion, for ages. The power of Mohamme- dans has inevitably wannd by the passing of the Kaliph, but one has still to reckon with the fervour'

and devotion of the religionists whose aim it is to restore the high office as soon as possible. The

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SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926.

THE KHALIFATE.

montept, and it will be interesting to watch the developments of

history.

a Member of the Board of Educa tion during the absence from the Colony of Mr. Benjamin Wyle or until further notice.

not be laid out at the back of the Mangldo House, and used as a garden by the Lord Mayor? I Magistrate ought to have a gardon. of his own, and I Invariably drop a silent tear whenever I pass his. historic abode and note the little pats of musk on the nursery, Three men are being held in cus-window-sill, and the aspidistra în tody in connection with a charge of the breakfast-room window, which committing a robbery in a matshed form the only semblance of a at Taipo late last night. A small garden which the City allows him sum of money and also clothing

and other property were stolen.

Once again the hardy annuai The Leipalg Autumn Fair will suggestion of a tax on bachelors has come up in the newspapers, this year start on the 29th Augustinspiring me to remark: and terminate on the 4th. Septem- ber. Both Fairs, the Sample 45 well as the Technical Fair, will be held during the same period.

2.

O, shame on those who'd seek

to good Thunwilling man to wedded

life..

And, like the robbers of the

road, Demand "your money or your

wife

An exhibition of billiards will be given by Mr. Claud Faikinen, at the Club Lusitano on Tuesday the 25th at half past five. Mr. I don't wish to appear cynical, Faikiner, will play Mr A. J.but supposing the tax ever became Osmund, the Hongkong champion.a. fait accompli. I foresee large.

The Empress of Russia is due hote from Manila on Tuesday morning, May 25th, at 8 a.m. and

"of pre-

ters, preferably those carious health, money no object

wall berth at Piet Kowloor demand for nonagenarian aping Wharf She will sail for Victoria and Vancouver, BC Via Shang hal, Nagasaki, Kobe and Yoko- hama, at noon on the 28th inst.

Minehead Council. I redd, has recently sold its fire engine at auction for $41,don't know what the buyer intends to do with it, but auta de mieux, it would make a

can topping baked potato can.

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Eatering through the skylight à burglar got into the third for of No. 222, Queen's Road Central in the small hours of yesterday morning, his visit not being known of until later in the morning, when a sum of $720 was found to have should be severely fined. They disappeared from a box. A report hhve had ample warning by now, has been made to the police. and in view of the necessity, inay vieta tiên the public interest, of a continuWe understand that the obscu- ance of the restrictions, the time ration of the time ball and Marchioness of Knurr and Spell, for the imposing of nominal fines phoon signals, increased latterly is durely past

SUMMER ARRIVED.

The Opera 'Season, which will open on the 10th May, bids fair to be one of the most brilliant functions seen in London for. many years. That well-known patroness of the musical art, the

her

has taken a box for the entire by the building of the Peninsula season; but "owing to Hotel, has been under considera advancing years and her ever tion for some time by the Hong increasing tendency to snure, she kong General Chamber of Com- will not be present in person, but represented by her merce, which has asked the Go will be

solicitor, acting under a power of verhment to consider the

question

attorney. Another devotee of of duplication of these signale with the object of making them grand opera, the Hon. Elbeaux Lyffter, has again secured his visible to ships in the eastern favourite seat at the end of the area of the Harbour.

At The Muzzling Order, The fact that two young Chinese bave

within the past few days succumbed to hydrophobia Is sufficient justification for the continuance of the muzzling order, awkward as it may be im some respects to dog-owners! Those:[ who have seen anything of the It is notified that, at the expira- History shows that it has often horrors of death from hydrophetion of three months, the Genera

bit, and know the terrible agonies Commercial Company, Limited will, happened that the indirect and which victims suffer, will agree unleas cause is shown to the con- somewhat incidental outcome of a that nothing should be left unaontrary, be struck off the register war has developed into a more to prevent the spread of rabies and the company will be dissolved.

thero this Colony. Unfortunately, important happening than the

are still many people who do not object for which the war was pay serious heed to the muzzling waged. When war was declared order, and who permit their dogs on Turkey by the Allies during to go abroad either uhmuzzled or fot on a load. Bome of these the Great War, there was no de apparently think that the most liberate thought of causing the that is likely to happen to them break-up of the most important in the imposition of a small fine, We have even noticed cases in centre of the Muslim world but which offenders Have not answer only the idea of preventing Led In Court to summonses, and Turkey preying on weak Balkan Set the merely nominal file con States friendly to the Allies and tinued to be inflicted: We fild Ourselves in complete agreement from actively helping the Central with a contemporary which urged Powera. The effect of that war, that if the muzzling order is to which ended in the military de-be enforced, offenders against it fent of Turkey, has been so to disrupt the organisation of Muslim that to-day there is no Kaliph--no religious head of the Mohammedana. And a Congress has just bden held in Cairo to see ivlikt can be done about it.

The Kaliph (or Caliph as the name used to be generally spelled) is supposed to be a direct lineal descendant of, the great prophet Mohammed and he is the religious

refreshment buffet, where he wil The experience of the phat few head of all the Mohammedan

probably be seen nightly as of days indicates that summer has

A dinner is being given at the yore, foining in all the choruses, States. Although Mohammed

come for its usual indefinite stay,

Hongkong Hotel to-night, in and helping the orchestra along himself was of pure Arabian even the rain having failed to descent, the Kaliph has, ever since afford any appreciable relief... honour Dr. W W Pearse, M. with a double-Bass from time to

OH who leaves for Home on time. Both temperature and humidity the 29th inst. after 25 yents' re- Other notable subscribers are about the year 850, held his powerhores have maintained a tigh sidence in the Colony, On behalf H.H. the Punkah of Bhunghalo by the sanction of the Turks, tol, but though it has sometimes of the heads of Govenment DeLord Hammond Eggea; the whom a Kaliph named Mutassen been uncomfortably Warm, we may partments, Mr. N. L. Smith, Pres Vicomte de Fois-Gras, and his Mile. • Noïgette fied for protection. For 200 years perhaps console ourselves with the dent of the Sanitary Board will daughter. before that time (from the advent thought that we have not been in present him with a silver cigarette d'Agneau; the Lady Yelland the well-known Lhe Philippines, where for four-box, and on behalf of the Sanitary Screechard,

the Hon. of Mohammed himself) there had teen days a heatwave has prevail- Department, including the Board, Society soprano; been a succession of wars between

with a gold cigarette case, gold Crville Buncombe;, Lady Varicose Mohammed's followers and Chris

match box, gold knife and a dress-Vane; and the Earl of Bilge and

Difchwater. tian.'peoples in Asia Minor and

ing table clock. Eastern Europe, with the result

During the excavations at Ur that the power of the Mohamme-

'clock the thermometer of the of the Chaldees a stone disc has been discovered bearing a portrait dans greatly increased and the

Manila Observatory registering 97.5 centigrade or 99.5 Fahrenheit. Kaliph, their head, became a great

The highest temperature on re- It marked the tenth day of che power. For many centuries now,

cord at the Manila Observatory of the hottest periods ever experi- it has been accepted that the was recorded about the middle of enced by Mantians. The tempera- Sultan of Turkey is, ipso facto, May, 1915, when the mercury ture registered yesterday at 1.20 the Kaliph, and it is the abolition reached 38.9 centigrade or 101.5m, was higher than any other Farenheit. The second hottest day experienced by Manilans since of the temporal office of Sultan was recorded in May, 1912, when 1906, when the mercury reached which has thus caused a break in 38.3 centigrade or 100.9 Farenheit 37.6.centigrade or 99.7 Fahrenheit, until 1912, when the Manila Ob the long line of Kaliphe Only was reached. a few days age, Reuter announced the death of the ex-Sultan at San Remo, and since his fight from Turkey in 1922 there has been no Kaliph. This is a happening of really great historical signif

A MEASURE OF CONSOLATION."

Monday was the third hottest day in the history of the Manila Observatory, according to the director of the institution.

At 2.55 o'clock the thermometer registered 38.2 centigrade or 100.8 Furenheit.

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The director said that prevailservatory registered a temperaturo ing weather conditions were unex of 38.3 contigrade or 100.9 Fahren- plainable. Thunderstorms have helt

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of the daughter of Sargon tha Grent (BC. 2700).Several mem- bera of a revue beauty-chorus who have seen a photograph of the relie have declared it to be a speaking likenesa...

WELCOME TO THE CUCKOO.. Welcome to you, spotted bird! Once again your voice is heard, Piping out Its minor third

Down the valleys wild Cucks nhà coos are better far Than the springting lambkin's

Or the skylark's tirra-la-

Only, draw it mildt

For you know as well as I That your sweat melodious cry Portents grave do signify,

To the listening maid; Since your quick, successive gaps Mean so many years elapse Ere she gets a husband (p'rapa!)—

Lend her, then your ald

Tactfully exhale your lay

All through April, all through

May

All through June-then fly away,

Stout messenger of Cupid "And yet I cannot but surmise.

That those who trace marriage-tics

fi

their

"

To hearing your clear notes arise. Are those who dub you "stupid!"

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Emboldened by the example of Desmond Major-General Sir

O'Callagham who, at the age of 84, has recently set out for a thou- band-mile trip up the Amazon to secure a couple of specimens of ráre fish, old Barmion Crumpets announces his intention of taking this summer a two-thousand mile trip up the Orinoco, in order to secure some specimens of the rare thret winged wombat. This curious creaturehossa far ovided capture, its third wing,

which grows on the top of its head,

giving it a turn of speed which is

The Professor, however, hopes by most baffing to the pursuer.

menns of a patent. telescope butterfly net, which he is now busy inventing, and by perfecting his imitation of the noise made by ladybirds (on which the wombat exclusively feeds) to be able to outwit his elusive prey. He has already drawn up a list of the stores and equipment he will re-" quire for the trip, for which, practically every well-known brewer and distiller has been invited to tender. 2

I am sorry to have to record that my annual spring-cleaning has not passed off without a tragedy. Yesterday a valuable Persian kitten, of mine got in- advertently sucked up by the vacuum-cleaner, and is at present firmly wedged about half-way". I am down the flexible tube,

doing what I can for it by drop- ping down milk and very small mice, but this, of course, only fattens the prisoner and makes it fit tighter. I hope, however, to make arrangements very shortly to have it blown out by steam: Failing that, I see nothing for it but to perform the operation of tracheotomy on the tube. Mean- while I don't mind betting that Nature never abhorred, a vacuum quite so much as my kitten does.

BIG FIRE.

WHOLE TOWN ALMOST

DESTROYED.;

MISSING BETWEEN PENANG. AND PORT SWETTENHAM.

New York, May 21. A message from Managua, in Information was received in

Nicaragua, says that the town of Kuala Lumpur this morning, says Map, In the centre of the the Malay Mail of May 13th, of the coffee-growing region, was almost disappearance of Mr. J. H. B.

ontirely destroyed by fire. been starting to form, but have not Manilans, have sweltored. And Smith, formerly assistant editor of developed. He stated he had been sizzled under the holling days of the Straits Echo. It appears that

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fourd no trace of the passenger expecting rain for some days, but the sun for the last ton days and Mr. Smith, who was ed route to that the weather conditions exist-unless rain falls soon, they will Australia, boarded the Klang on

and observed that the bed had not ing at this time of the year, are commerce to fry, says the Mauild the previous Tuesday evening it

Bulletin. Business is at a stand Penang for Port Swettenham open leptin

Mr. Smith was booked to sail for The Cairo Congress has decided Tuesday was the sixth hottest still, and clerks park themselves.

At 1 ap-some hours after the Australia, and had a draft on an under batteries of electric fans to bont had left Penang-Mr. Smith Australian bank for sometiring like that for the present at any rate,day in Manila for 20 years.

Manila, residents, who awoke at offset the heat, waves. there is no one so circumstanced 5.40 o'clock in the morning, found Refreshment parlours, hotel was seen by one of the crew, ro 1700, so he was obviously not in as to become Kaliph either by the thermometer registering a tem- bare, saldons and ice cream ven-clining on long chair rending monetary difficulties. It is, how perature of 252 centigrade or 77.4 ders are reaping a harvest. Gal That was the last seen of him. ever, stated that he was in poor election, or conquesta means of

Fahrenheit and as the day lons of quid refreshments, both When the boat arrived at Poft health and had been under treats succession permitted, apparently, lengthened, the heat increased. soft and bard, fave been consumed Swottenham the boy, as usual, took met snl observation in the I

the morning coffee to his cabin and hospital pilor to his departur by the Koran. It may be that with

The sun was bottest at. 1.20 by Manilans in keeping cool

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