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Ladies"

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926.

DAY BY DAY.

PROTECT YOUR CAR cause the Powors cannot inelet by installing a that General Chu yield up the re "PYRENE Fire venues while his superiore, allies, Extinguisher. colleagues and rivals in other "PYRENE will parts of the country are permit kill fire without ted to remain in undisputed pos- TALENTS--Shakespeare...”, damage to the

THAT HAVE IT; AND THICSE THAT WELLA GOD GIVE THEM WIRDON

ARE FOOLS, LET THEM USE THEIR

Tenders are being invited for furniture for King's College,

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MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany

Ashley Sterne

At the offices of the London. Association for the Protection of Oriental Commercial Bank Ltd.,ment which will tell you how and A meeting of creditors of the Trade there is a special depart is to be held on August 4th at where out-of-the-way articles may A p.m.

bo procured. It has alrendy directed the hesitating footsteps of two potential purchasers who respectively required some River Jordan water and somo kangaroo,

engine, woodwork session of similar revenues from or upholstery similar sources which they have Water spreads a taken for years. There is also petrol fire; sand is much comment in the writer's inefficient and will article on the Tariff Conference, put the engine out of action....

in the course of which he says the outstanding Impression of the "PYRENE" Ex-

delegates is that China has amply demonstrated that she is not qualified to execute a Treaty, and will continue to be incapable of fulfilling any pledges which "the

The King's Exequatur empower-, Peking administration might light-ing Monsieur Dufaure de la Prade is always ready ly make for a long time to come. to act as Consul for France in

tinguisher is small in size, light in weight and easy to handle, "PYRENE" docs not deteriorate and

His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation by Second Lieutenant Alan Prismall of his Commission In the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.

Hongkong has received. His Ma- jesty's signature.

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for use.

Japan, he says, either wants to Koop a "PYE-

go through with the Tariff 'Con- ENE handy on car and in garage, ference, even if it takes' ten years,

His Excelloney the Governor has, under instructiona or she wants it closed with such Secretary of State for the Colonies, from. the a frank statement of the insuper-appointed Mr. William George Mustard & Co.,Ltd. able obstacles as to force the Gerrard to bo

world to abandon pretence in re- Superintendent of Police.

Incorporated under the Companico- Ordinances Hongkong. 16-17, Connaught Road Central.

The Telegraph

SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1926.

THE POWERS AND CHINA.

lations with China and deal with her on a basis of realities.

an Assistant

Under the Sale of Food and

Drags Ordinance, there were 92 samples taken for the quarter ended June 30th. Of these 31

were of fresh milk. All were Fenuine excepting five samples of} milk.

"News has been received of the death at Cape Town of Mr. T A. Barclay, formerly in the employ

cope with such inquirtes as these, tails; and if it can successfully its capabilities would appear to be limitless. The neid test, however, will come when I roll up of the LA.P.T. requesting to be inform- merchandise is proenrable! ed how and where the following

Rigid asparagus;

Secondhand coffins; Non-skid macaroni; Collar-studs that come alien

they're called;

Silent soup.

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Inves

In Paris the franc may be going lower und lower, but the crown is going higher end higher.. I ladies, hars: Specimens mean, of course, the crown of

already reached London bearing crowns nine inches high, and according to a fashion journal tho Himit of Altitude has by no means been reached. Personally, I am of the Hongkong Electric Com-ull for the Higher Crown. It. pany, who left Hongkong in will distinctly add to the Brighter February on the termination of Life. Indeed, I go so far as to his agreement and who proceeded express the hope that hat-crowns to South Africa with the intention will one day attain the height of of getting work and, settling down several thousand feel, and be there. Mr. Barclay, who was un- covered married, had many friends In Hongkong.

The missionary problem is also touched on at great length in the article, it being contended that the missionaries themselves are be ginning to see that if what are

Miss Emily Henrietta Wilson, of termed the "legitimate aspira-Fern Lea, Kenilworth, Warwick tions" of the folk they serve were shire, who died on April 18th, aged fulfilled, the missionaries and their 80 years, left estate of the value of With the virtual breaking up of converts would be the first to suf-Pakhoi Leper Fund of the Church £26,008. She left £50 to the

the Tariff Conference in Peking, fer. The opinion is quoted of one Missionary Society the question arises as to whether of the most competent American there is any probability of a

observers in Ching that if extra- change of attitude on the part of territoriality were abolished, mis the Powers towards China. The ionary propaganda would bring opinion is expressed by Mr. Rod-intervention within three months. ney Gilbert, a well-known Peking

There is no suggestion, according commentator on Chinese affairs,

to Mr. Gilbert, of the Powers that circumstances-notably the

abruptly announcing that they are salt revenue question, the Tarif going to intervene, but nearly all Conference fallure and the mal observers are convinced that a treatment of foreign missionaries decided change of policy will -ard inevitably driving the shortly be apparent in the deal- Powers to a new attitude.

inga of all the major Powers with The

China,. burden of his views, set forth at reat length in an article in the N. C. Daily News, is that it is be-

COURTAULDS SLUMP.

with perpetual snow. Then we shan't have to bother about going to Zermatt or the Engadin to witness the pheno- menon of the Alpine glow. All we shall need do is to stand the wife up in the back garden; and then.... if she can make a noise like à chamois moaning for its leather, the illusion will be practically perfect.

Wife (to husband' returning from Installation Banquot): H'mph! Anybody can see where you've been!

Leeshee if I can guesh.

Hubby: · Don't tell me!

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It was found in an Abordeon: variety theatre during the turn of

a couple of Hebrow cross-talk comedians.

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Have you heard the story of the audience that assembled to hear a free Jecture on. Heteronomous Transcendentalism? At half-timo: they both went home.

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SQUARING THE CIRCLE. (Square wedding-rings are the latest fashion for brides.) Three, hundred years botore A‚D., Professor Euolid said, said ho "I think ray famous work Scarce be complete until I show, By ratiocinatio,

But

The way to square the circle,"

eron his colossal Brain,

Accustomed to long montal strain, The problem o'er cluded;

He COULDN'T square that wretched

tu

Ho guineil, from years of frantic

work,

No more success than you did, Nigh two score centuries had to pass; And then there eatne a winsome lase

Who solved this mental tangler. Her bridal ring, with utmost care; She bent until she made it square; And hubby's now heard to declare "A shaple problem, that I swear,

For one who is a Wranglori

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After Hamlet in modern dress, Faust similarly arrived. I take of my hat to the Birminghara Grand Opern Society (if Birming- ». ham allows anybody to remove his hat without being arrested for it), and venture to hops that hereafter they will give us Wagner in. present-day costume, I'd just love to see the Thine Maidens swimming about in Trouville" bathing Costumes, and.. the Valkyries ridbay in bowlers and slippery boots; while I have. always 'Held that the sensible garb ir for Tristan in Act. 1. is the full dreas uniform of a biom of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

+ + +

News comes from Kimberley that a flawless specimen of the red diamond has been found. These stones, I understand, are very

all rare, though from accounts red carbon in another form is fairly common, My friend, Dr. Anmenthesins Bil- gewater, for instance, recently found several large lumps of red coal in his last esipament of fuel. Flo subjacier uprtimens to drastic tests, but curiously enough could discover nothing in common

REDUCTION IN INTERIM The Miners' 'Standpoint, -

DIVIDEND."'. ing gradually realised, on all

It is just ten weeks ago to-day hands that the pasi polley of that the coal strike (or, as the

London, July 9. There was a big" slump in the patient conciliation, is no longer miners prefer to call it, "a lock-shares of Messrs. Courtaulds, arti- suited to the conditions which pre-out") began at Home, and we are

ficial silk maufacturers, one of only at the point where angry La- the most favourite counters on the vail all over the country, and that hour Members of Parliament greet Stock Exchange following an even many Chinese recognise that with derisive clicers and other announcement of reduction in the a change on more definite lines tumult the announcement that the interim dividend, from eighteen- Professor Miller, an Americau would be to the mutual benefit permitting miners to work shares

Royal Assent has been given fr

pence to fifteen-pence. The scientist. claims to have proved of all concerned.

dropped five-eighths, the existence of that hypothetical for eight hours a day instead of quivalent to a market deprecia-substance, ether, by which wire- Whilst conceding that many seven hours. Ten long weeks have tion of £7,500,000.

less and light waves are trans- factors have been operating to gone by and the temper of the dis- The reduction is possibly due to mittell. It his claim should upon point the necessity of a change further aroused and made more coal strike. Courtauld's, however, not only win a turkey for the Pro- putants seems only to have been a policy enution in view of the investigation, prové good, it will in the policy of the Powers,, Mr. irreconcilable. The colossal mag-are reducing selling prices and fessor, but also for the chap whose Gilbert cites the action of Gene-nitude of the disaster which has are believed to be engaged in vivid imagination first thought of been suffered by British industry texsive competition against their explaining away the phenomena of ral Chu Yu-pu, the Fengtion Gov as a consequence of the strike is rivals, which may temporarily radio and light by means of a subably the same price (52s, a ten). ernor of Chihli, In setting up his not yet even realised, else much affect profits-Reuter.

stance that hadn't been discovered. own sal revenue .collectorate at more strenuous and more generous

Sir Isaac Walton (or was it. Sir Tientsin and in seizing the salt efforts would have been made to

Isaac Pitman?) you remember, göt taxes in the Chang Lu district,

a whack on the skull from a rotten apple, and forthwith invented as the last straw which is likely

some hypothetical doings called to break the caniel's back.

gravity to account for the mishap. ed that gravity really did exist. Many years later, it was discover-

AUSTRALIAN COTTON.

cotion

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, July9.

.189% ,208

12.11%

20.13

10.J

18.35

24.42

193%

18120 17432

..153 2/11/ 1/114

.4.80.10/32

STAGE'S INFLUENCE

FOR GOOD.

ACTORS NO LONGER ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.

between the red coal and the ordlagry binek kiac, except that it wouldn't burn and was, presum

I have seen a specimen. In shape, size and colour it is not unlike thuse things that bricklayers used to lay in, pro-wor days, and that, we used t brhtowipinmBxm we used to throw about at General Elbetion times. I forget the name. It is no long since I have sech or handled one. A

end the war of exhaustion. The Government seems to have pinned its faith to the monetary attrac

Melbourne, July 0. tion of longer hours, but the in- Pro-

The Tariff Board considered the ceeding to investigate the situa are that the miners are refusing the cotton industry in Australia dications at present, says Reuter, Government scheme to encourage tion thus caused, he cites past to go back to work on either pre-by granting a bounty on non-interference on the part of strike pay or a little less if it yarn spinning, and recommends a the Powers with the withholding fancy, however, that many will

entails a longer working day. We bounty, of sixpence par pound.-

who took part in that great pro- fession to be in every way helpers of salt revenues by various pro give in on those terins because

to make the lives of all of them vincial authorities and militarists, of the sufferings of the struggle

stronger and worthier and fitter for what was indeed a grant call- and goes on to say that on the they are waging. It is hard for Bome of us, perhaps, te understand

ing of the world. He supposed 3rd of every June, the Salt Ad- this deep-rooted objection to long-

avery one of them believed that, ministration pays Tls. 950,000er hours, but the miners are ex- Brussels

Paris

the staze stood to-day, for some into the banks which

tremely jealous of the time con- Amsterdam

The Archbishop of Canterbury that that on the whole was for Serve the Hukuang Railway loang for Furthermore, longer hours must Copenhagen

cessions they have previously won. Berlin, ..

apoke at the annual meeting of the the untold good, and not ill of the Actors' Church Union held at the people. He said "on the whole" payment of semi-annual coupons mean more unemployement among Helsingfors

Vienna

Royalty Theatre, London, on May because just as in other walks of This payment was made this year will be in the number of men em- Buarios Aires

the miners, because the saving. Lisbon

18. Remarking that at one time life, in other branches of litera out of the current receipts, plus ployed and not in the amount of Shangha

it would have been regarded, usture, in etage production as in the nearly a lakh from the reserve wages paid to each.

rather a strange thing that anyone production of novels, there waS. If miners New York Yokohama

who held his position, should be abundent need for an effort to the first drain upon the last re-gonerally are asked to work one- Goneva

in that plage and on the stage, securo that all was kept high- sources of the revenue service eighth of the time longer than now, Milah

the Archbishop recalled that in toned and pure and strong. They which is responsible for at least number can be dispensed with and Pra

then, logically, une-eighth of their Stockholm

Elizabethan times netore were had learned to realise how gigan classed as rogues, and vagabonde tie was the possibility of good Prague four very important loan services. the same amount of coal brought Madrid

and were excluded from residence that belonged to the stage, the What is even more striking is the to the surface. Of course, it Rio

7:13/10. In the City London. Some of ennobling power, educative, up statement that in just ten years, that, but longer hours will inevit

would not work out que Nke

Bombar

.15.20/32 Hongkong

them, he said could recall times lifting, and recreative, whith, 11: .2/2% the receipts of the Peking collectably mean fewer workmen, unice Saver (forward) ...

Silver (spot).

when it would have been thought it was wholesomely exercised and .8014 36.3/16 perhaps 3 strange as it would set to a prope purpose, was soms- brate, which had seemed such ré bigger output is the and in view.

-British Wireless.

have been in Elizabethan times toing which ought to be doing un- markably "ine, security for loans. This is realised by the miners and

be there for the purpose of bene told good to the common life. has been reduced, through the durate attitude.

may explained, in part, their ob- Ten thousand sealed bottlos dicting and helping an artistic have been set adrift in the vici craft which was regarded general- consistent application of a for-

nity of New York harbour as partly as extremely frivolous and The Cobbett Gold Medal for eign policy of indulgence.. cpm-

Passengers expected to arrive of a scientific investigation to rather naughty.

1926, Awarded by the Musicians promise and patient conciliation include Mr. Christensen, Mr. E. rents. The War Department is he added. The time had gone by awarded to Mr. Alfred J. Cle

by s.a. Fushimi Maru to-morrow determine the netion of water cur-

"Thank goodness that is past," Company "for services to the art from more than seventy million Falkoid, Mrs. C. Fisher, Miss C. M. co-operating in the Investigation.

of chamber music has been dollars to nothing. Mr. Gilbert Fisher, Mr. H. T. Gourlie, Mr. A. Each bottle contains a card bear- when was thought anything but says the salt situation cannot pos- Gronvold, Mr. S. Mikelaen, Mrs. ing a message to the finder dating right that they should be doing ments, who for 40 years has orgu- aibly remain a local problem, benster A. EL White.

D. M. White, Miss J. J. White, him to fill in the data called for what they could to help forward aised the South-place chamber

musle concerts. malling back the card immediately.

every effort, for enabling those.

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