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WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
„WE ARE TOO. PRONE
TO FINE
FAULT, LET US LOOK FOR SOME OF THE PERFECTIONS-Schiller.
The Colony had a clean bill of health on Thursday..
tiring. Included amongst the Cantonese who are now out of Canton may be mentioned Mr. Wang Ching-wal, Dr. C. C. Wu, Mr, Wu Hon-man and General Hsu Sung-chi, whilet General Wd. Te- "chen is at the moment under de tention. Taking the present lenders in Canton, it is to be noted that. General Chang Kai-shek to a Chekiang man, General Tan Yen- kal is from Hunio, General Chu on the 3rd June at 10 a.m. Pul-tak is a Yunnanese, and
According to the old Chinesd General Lai Chai-sum is a Kwang-calendar to-morrow is the festival ei man. So far as we can recall of Sprouting Seeds (Mang-chung). at the moment, the principal Cantonese military leader in office at the moment is General Chang Chien, who, however, is largely unknown to the outside world.
What, we are to deduce from these facts it is difficult to say. But it is at any rate distinctly Interesting to bear in mind that,
MUSTARD & CO., LTD. so far from the "Canton for the Cantonese" movement coming to fruition, at the moment the power in Canton is held. by "outside"!" men. We shall doubtless witness further changes in the neur future, and these may help to throw light on an obscure. situa- tion. Our main hope is that, out of all this chaos, order will even tually be evolved and that the reins of government will come. into the hands of those who have the best interests of Canton and" "of South China generally at heart.
The marriage of Miss Dorothy King and Mr. W. A. Nowers will take place on Wednesday, Junej the 9th, at 3 p.m., in St. John's Cathedral. No Invitations are being issued but all friends will be welcome at the Cathedral and at at a reception afterwards "Tanderageo" 372, The Peak.
The Telegraph
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1926.
Prohibition Referendum.
There seemed to very little else for the Prohibition Committee than to refer the
The P. and O. s.e. Macedonia; from Hongkong, arrived at London
1
MIXED GRILL
A Merry Miscellany Boy
Ashley Sterne
"Tempora mutantur, quoth that it would have been a better Caesar, or Ovid, or somebody (It idea to have transcribed into verso was one of the pre-Raphaelite the ordinary sort of notice which School anyway), and a singular one usually encounters in public instance of mutanturing with the gardens. Then they would stand tempora is just to hand. You greater chance of being read remember, don't you, the old and observed. I give a sample or nursery rhyme about the little old two. First, as to picking flowers: woman who went to market her It is notified that the name of gs for to sell, and on the way the Costa Music Company, Ltd petticonts up to the knees; where- encountered a pedlar who cut her has been struck off the Register.
upon the victim began to shiver and to "freeze-fol-lol-riddle- Notice is given that until fur-diddle-dol. Well, it was probably ther. notica the importation of her own fault, you know, because doga into Shameen from Hongkong she doubtless had her petticont Is strictly prohibited.
showing beneath the hem of her dress one of the most reprehen- The larceny of clothing to the Bible lapses a woman of the Vic-
•
Police.
In
value of $10 from the steam torian Era could commit. launch Stanley is reported to the these circuinstances I hold that the pedlar acted quite correctly, If somewhat drastically, in re- His Excellency the Governor has moving the offending lingerie. reappointed Dr. Wan Man-kal to To-day, however, he would be be a Member of the Board of Educa-I aec that the newest mode is for muleted in thumping damages, for tion for a further period of two ladies to show two inches of petticoat beneath thoir, dreas.
jears,
On account of repairs to bo undertaken, notice is given that from June 8th to June 15th the eastern side of Binke Pier will be closed to traffic.
Baseball games will be played at Happy Valley this afternoon between the Defence Corps and Club de Recreio at 2.30 and Hong- kang and the Japanese at 4.30..
be but The forthcoming wedding is an Senate nounced of Mr. Cyril Edwin Millard, of the Kowloon Dock, to Miss Edas Frances Rapley who is due to ar rive in the Colony by the 9.8. Ram
Lo do. problem CO the United States' should modify the Dry laws. to a wider and more representa-
THE CANTON PUZZLE. of whether or
The other day, we came across tive body. It was in response to very many appeals that a Cum a remark by a Chinese writer to mittee of the Senate was appoint the effect that the puzzling naturéed to enquire into the working of of Chinese polities is rather over the Volstead Act and to determine stressed by the majority of whether there should be a stricter enforcement of prohibition or a mu- Western observers and commen- dification. The maze of contradi- tators. Whilst there may be some tory evidence given before that megatire of truth in this state- Committee was such as to leave it more undecided than when it was ment, we must "frankly confess
convened.
It learned from one that recent developments in Can- section of church and social organi ton have not by any menna helped 'sations that prohibition had been us to an understanding of what a boon; it learned from another section of similar endeavour that is actually occurring there. Look it had resulted in all manner of
pura.
O, heed not the post of old who
did say.. "Come, gather yo rosebuds while
ye mayl
Refrain from the culling of rose-
buds, we pray!" ·
one day!
You may be a rosebud yourselt
Next, as to keeping off the
O callous stranger, as you pass, Desist from walking, on this.
grasal
And just remember,
stalk on,
You've got the
Be you
whole wide
world to walk on.
Again, is to dogs:
It is not ours to place a ban Upon the faithful friends of man; But note, when you these gar
dens use,
Your doggie must be led, not
loose.
And lastly, as to closing time:- In summertime on Brixton (ort.
wherever it may be)
The bells ring out so clear. At hn-past nine etch evening, Then off at once, we fear, You'll really have to sheer. And when the snows. at Christ-
mas
At five p.m. ench avoning, Are strewn upon the grass, Each ling ring lad and Inas Outside must quickly pass.
Naturally this will lead at first to misapprehension amongst those, i who, unlike myself, do not pernae Unless the fashion journals. some precaution be taken, I can forsee fashionable young ladies being stopped in the street by dear, motherly; obsolete, old ladies, and warned "Excuse, me, The Catholic community is hold my dear, but your petticoat is ing a reception in the Theatre showing." To obviate this, and Royal at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, the make it abundantly clear that the 14th June," on the occasion of the petticoat is displayed by design presentation of addresses to the and not by accident, I would Right Reverend Monsignor H. Val suggest that the frill of same be
It is announced that Sir Jagadis torta, Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong. embroidered with an advertise-Chandra Bose, the famous Hindu ment. 'There would be no mis-scientist, has established the fact Mr. K. Ochiai, the Japanese Am-taking that it was shown on that not only do plants and veget baseador to Rome, who passed purpose if it served to remind usables have hearts, which serve through the Colony on Tuesday that it's the little daily dose that much the same function as the aboard the Kashima Maru on his does it.
hearts of Individuals, but that they return to Japan, arrived at Shang- hai yesterday morning, according shillings for contempt of court it known that these astonishing re-act to alcohol just as human A juryman has been fined five beings do. In justice I, must make
for: dozing in his seat during the facts have long been known to that a telegram received here.
progress of a case. His excuse eminent botanist, Professor Lin- that he thought he was sitting in meaus Leberwurst, of Schinkelbred. the family pew at church was not So long ago as 1888 be discovered considered sufficiently valid.
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A British Wireless message says ing at the matter quite dispassion-abuses and law breaking: enforce that this is fourth time Lord Astor the "Oaks." Though ately, the only deduction that wement officers, told of widespread has won
that vegetables had hearts capable vasion and the wholesale private several times his candidates have
of intense emotions and, purely in. can draw is that there has been, manufacture of deleterious spirit; been second in the Derby, he has Amongst other relics which re the cause of science, made violent. and still is, a big struggle for whilst astounding figures were not yet succeeded in winning this cently came up for sale by auction love to a Brussels sprout. Unfor was one of Napoleon's teeth. It tunately, the Brussels sprout, power taking place between in- quoted regarding the defection of premier classic race,
coramercial alcohol. Most of the
was bought (I am Informed) by which didn't care dividuals. At the moment, there evidence was obviously genuine and
a blow for His Excellency the Governor has an ardent Napoleonophile who science eventually threatened to does not appear to be concrete sincere, and it has undoubtedly been appointed Professor John Ander purchases everything pertaining
sue. the professor for breach evidence of any really important established that prohibition, whilst son, M. A., B. Sc., M. D., Ch. B. to Napoleon, which comes on the of promise of marriage; and political cleavages, although the it has worked some good, has also D.TIM. & H., to be an additional market. The result is that he the Professor only get out of the worked some harm. The same Member of the Council of the Uni- now possesses 192 teeth of this
events of the immediate past may might be said of most social pro-versity of Hongkong, for a period extraordinary man; enough locks Imbroglio by representing through
scriptions and the enquiring Com- of three years, with effect from 1st mittee has come to the conclusion June, that the best thing would be to let
possibly lead thereto.
Prime interest naturally centres
1.
of
of hair to stuff a sofa: two tochia solicitor that the word he had nuils; a tattoo-mark from his fore-used. was not "marriage" but "cab- arm; a mole from his chin, four bage." at the moment on General Chang
Then too, it was he who dis- the country have a referendum on For the first time in history, moustaches grown while the great Kai-shek, who appears to have the matter and that, reading such the Sultan of Morocco is to break man was still a humble corporal; covered that vegetables re-acted to alcohol. Again in the cause of consistently strengthened his a referendum, there should be a the laws of the Koran to visit an air-cushion (full) blown out position, by dach move he has made postponement of all modifications Paris. Escorted by a brilliant de- by Napoleon on St. Helena; and science, he once inveigled an arti
of the dry laws. No one will claim legation of the great Caids
the last kiss bestowed upon Jose-choke into a pub, and gave it one on the political chess-board. Не
that a referendum is the best way Morocco, and Islamic leaders from phine, But his most cherished over the eight. On the way home is certainly the dominant persona of arriving at such an important Algeria Egypt, Palestine, and relic is a gramaphone record of the artichoke insisted on ainging lity in Canton at the moment, but decision, because the procedure is Arabia, he will visit the French the ejaculation "Sapristi!" uttered "What'll I do" at the top of its there is considerable variety of open to much abuse, but polls taken capital in July to inaugurate the by Napoleon when he found voice, tried to kiss a policeman, and
by some of the leading newspapers largest mosque constructed in the opinion as to the exact goal which have shown an overwhelming ma-Western world. he has in view. To the outside jority in favour of modifica observer he seems to be develop. tion as against abolition, and wo think the result of any national and' official referendum would result similarly. Certain it is that the opponents of prohibition will not reat until the matter has, once
ing into something in the nature of a War Lord, and it is rumour- ed in Canton that he has already arrived at some understanding again, gone to the people.
with one or other of the Northern militarists.. Time will tell
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We suppose the reason locomo tarists against Cantonese civilian tivo drivers don't operate with officials! Indeed, we believe we one hand is that they've only are right in saying that there are get firemen as companions." very few of the latter, now loft in Canton, the two most prominent
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