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The Telegraph

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926.

EMPIRE AFFAIRS,

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926.

there is growing up that very de sirable outlook that all parts of 1 Empire are members of one family, each with an individual and proportionate voice in the affairs of that family.

DAY BY DAY.

SIR, I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN DE PRESIDENT-Henry Clay.

On and after Monday, there will of water be a constant supply turned on in all rider main dis- triets.

It is notified that the name of the Japan.

Gazette Company Limited, has been struck off the Register.

On Tuonday the Auctioneering and Brokering Co. will cell the property at West Point, formerly known as the Kung Wo Hotel.

GRILL

MIXED by A Merry Miscellany

Ashley Sterne

I much regret that the strange sea-creature caught in a trawl het by some Cornish fishermen managed to get away before the reporters could get at it and in- terview it: for, from the fisher-

slept last week-end in a Margate Boarding house bed I am Inclined to agree with the learned gentle- man.

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LINES TO A DEAN OLD FRUIT, wore it nine to code the bud To nature's finest raw berry, An instant I'd not hesitate; I'd give it to the strawberry,

So far as Australia, Canada and South Africa are concerned they are, for all ordinary purposes, wholly autonomous States though bound by bonds of blood and affection to Britain and all sharing in the general scheme of Empire Defence. India is, gradually shap ng to take her place alongside, though she has had a phase of acute travail during the past few

Onc Chinese case of diphtherià months. Ireland will.possibly at-and one British and Ave Chinese tend the forthcoming Conference cases of enteric fever were roport- in her own individual right fored in the Colony on Thursday. the first time, and with Colonial Mra. Creasy has been glected men's account of it, the marine Office representation for all the temporary president of the Cathic biologists have so far failed to No doubt hold many a braw horry, amailer Colonies and Dependen-dral Women Workers' Guild dur-identify it. It is described a The goose, the rasp, the mul,, the

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From Eden's tiina to present day, No mortal oyo yet saw berry So colourful and tempting as The priceless Kentish strawberry.

And if I search the whole wide work

From Tokyo to Norbury, The teeming soll cannot produco

A rival to the strawberry,

The Garden of Hesperidos..

cran,

efes, of which Hongkong is one, ing the absence from the Colony being twenty feet long, with a tall | Yet nong to bent the strawberry. we get the view of a united of the Guild President, Lady Pol-eight feet long. It had a beak

family seated at a round table conference for the better relation-

lock.

His Excellency the Governor has c-appointed Mr. Lancelot Forster to be a Member of the Board of Education for a further period of two years, with effect from 27th July, 1926.

six inches wide and two feet long, and four legs. Ita body was pro- tected with scales like armour: plate, and its back was covered with matted hair, see what Sherlock Holmes would Well, let us

have made of **

"The length of the body, my dear Waison, clearly suggests tho There has been added to the cachalot, while the long tall in list of medical practitioners thedicates the kangaroo. The size name of Dr. Ho Ched-wing, 41, of the beak points to the pelican, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor the armadillo, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, and the armour-plated scales to of Surgery of the University of on the back is characteristic of the The matted hair

Hany while the four lega are similarly.. characteristic of the On the Sundays in August there sufa or ottoman. will be evening Service in the Peak volume of my home-made en- Just hand me Church at 6.30 p.m. when the prea-eyriopædia Ah-what d'you' cher will be Rev. A. D. Stewart, think of this? 'Reputed to haunt MA, Headmaster of St. Paul's Cornish coast-over twenty feet College. All' sents are free and long- tail-large beak-thick unappropriated—Advt.

MUSTARD & CO., LTD. ship and understanding of each. It is an interesting picture, of a gathering full of possibilities for great achievement. There is no political party in Britain more ardent for Empire welfare than the party now in power, and Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Amery can be trusted to make the very most out of the forthcoming meet-Edinburgh, ings.. So long as the broadmind- ed polley of freedom' and devolu- tion is carried out, so long will the Perhaps the most important

British Empire continue to matter touched upon by Mr, Amery Hourish a group of nations in his survey of Empire affairs, welded together by bonds, of delivered in the House of Conmutual interests and sympathy. mors on Thursday, was the great desirability for continuity of policy by the Imperial and Cole- nial Governments. De stated that there was a continuity of policy in British foreign affairs, and that

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The Kowloon Scandal,

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scales matted hair on back four legs. Has never yet been discovered. How's that, Wat son?"

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His Excelleney the Governor has been pleased to recognise, provi- sionally and pending instructions

"Marvellous, Holmes! from the Secretary of State for the what is its name?" Colonias, Mr. - Francisco Bona- Just as I anticipated: chear y Romero as Consul for Cuba cachakangapelitilaman!" in,Hongkong.

And

the

Mather Nature e'er proposo To issue yet one more berry A patent winter strawberry!". "T' orly pray her: Plenae invert

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togy at the University of British Dr. Hill, professor of bacterio-

Columbia, has demonstrated that the practice of shaking hands is instrumental in the spreading of infectious diseases. This is very sad news, for one by one the old and honoured forms of greeting

arc

being condemned as. 177- The picturesque and

hygienic.

intimate ceremony of rubbing noses has long since been rendered obsolete by medical interference, awarded to the ancient and hon- and a similar fate would have been

ourable practice of kissing if some us had not assumed a stiff against its abolition... upper lip and set our faces firmly

of

inter-Empire matters. The ques-night, as detailed by letters from panies Ordinances:-Mr. Maurice Fiddle. D. D.) is confined to similarly come under the bnu I

affections of the heart.

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From Sydney (N.S.W.) comes

menferty, then those arrangeaccount, however, and the point to £50 by the end of the year.

be subject to termin-that needs stressing is the utter ation and reversal if and when the undesirability of having a Mor Labour Party should again cometary situated right in the heart of a growing residential district. We believe that some time ago the Kowloon Residents' Association took this matter up with the authorities, but with what results

Readers generally will doubtless ul. the greatest sympathy for useholders in the vicinity of the Kowloon Mortuary because of the. it was to be hoped that a similar extremely unpleasant experience

The following have been ap

DISTINGUISHED INVALIDS. The Bishop of Sodor and Milk state of things would prevail on which they suffered on Thursday pointed auditors under the Com-the

Very Rev. Stradivarius And now that handshaking hus tion arose out of a suggestion by our issue of last evening. It ap- Percival, F. C. A. Mr. John threat, contracted through his some professor discovers that two residents, which appeared on Jenks. F. C. A. Mr. John Edward cloisters with clergyman's, sore suppose it will not be long before the Labour Party that the various pears that some twenty

Casburn Pidgeon, F. C. A., Mr inadvertently wearing a partly Oppositions in the Empire should covered coffins, containing the re- Alfred Ernest Copp, A.C.A. and which buttoned in the front.

collar raising one's hat to a lady is an in- be given a chanes of representa-mains of victims of the typhoon, Messrs. Maurice Jenks, Percival &

fectious action, and that there is Lady Thynne-Skynne is gradual-no more drastic method of convey- tion at the forthcoming Imperial Mortuary, where they remained

were dumped down outside the Isitt.

ly recovering from the frost-bite ing bacteria than bowing from tho Conference in order that there for about half an hour, and that

which hit her ears while eating a hips. His Excellency the Governor has slice of catalog glace at the might be a reasonable possibility even when the bodies were re-appointed, provisionally and sub-Splitz last week.

Curiously enough no doctor has yet condemned as infection-carry- of any successive Governments moved inside the building the icct to Is Majesty's pleasure, Dr.

stench arising therefrom was such W. V. M. Koch, J.E., to be an Uno sustained a severe kick from his little social amentity known as Captain Rashleigh Ryder, who ing that pleasant and popular agreeing to carry on any arrange that the majority of residents in ficial Member of the Legislative pony ments that might have been made the neighbourhood were forced to Council during the absence from yesterday, is in a serious condi-has done more than anything else while playing water-polo "banding the glad eye." Yet it by a former Government." For in-close their windows for the whole the Colony of the Hon. Sir H. Etion, his temperature having risen towards the spreading of sundry

Pollock, K.C. stance, if the present Conservative night. It may have been, and pro

three therins, Government of Britain made, nt remains should be taken to the bably was, necessary that the,

The St. John's Cathedeni Nolea states Dowager Countess of Dobsbody. many friends of the the hext October meetings, some Mortuary for possible identifica-that in connection with, the Waifs' will regret to learn that her ap the glud lidings that the fossilised fiscal or other arrangements with tion or other reasons; and from £22 25. B has been forwarded to for the second time within a fort remains of a diprotodon-huge

and Strays' Society a cheque for pendix has again been removed. the big self-governing Dominions serious complaint against the

this standpoint there can be no the Society for the support of night. The surgeon informs her kangaroo-like animal that used to that was objectionable in principle authorities. The experience suf- special cripples of the local branch that if she had i amputated three climb trees have been discovered and practice to the views of the fered by near-by residents "was

in the Society's home. This sum, weeks running she is entitled to the famous Wellington Caves. Labour

none the less offensive on

it is mentioned, will be made up keep it. that

No greater sensation has been Miss Lotta Lymelyght, the well-caused in scientific circles, since

Pincott. Mr. Nihil at Kowloon of swelled head in het press bleiter in some caves situated in known revue actress, was rester the discoveries made some years On the application of Inspector day overcome with a bad attack ago by Professor Pifflinger Rotten Magistracy yesterday remanded a agent's office. The press-agent Chinese woman for one week on a is getting on as well as can be ex-There he found the petrified car

the middle of the Sahara desert." charge, of unlawful possession of pected. Matters of Empire management

twelve pistols and seven revolvern

case of a sort of dromedary that are always extremely delicate, be

all of which were found in, a house sent suffering from a severe, at the remains of a species of giraffe Mr. Henley Peckford is at pre-used to jump hurdles, as well as cause there still survives, in spite

in Tung On Street, londed, in all tack of his wife's liver. of the great many improvements at that time was not in regard to arrested with the woman have, we cannot recall. The objection chambers. Four men, who, were

which used to burrow underground and live almost entirely upside that have been made of lato years, such incidents as accurred on been released by the Police and

wings, ready preserved in alcohol, down. There, too, he very nearly discovered a kind of igins with the feeling that the dominance of Thursday night, but because of the were not brought before the Court.

and. would certainly have succeed London is inclined to be excessive noise created by Chinese funerals and that it robs the Dominions and evil, which still persists, and now no vessel shall embark

leaving the Mortuary. That is an A new regulation provides that

ed if the medical officer of the party had not hidden the whisky. Colonies of that free self-expres-it is further added to by Thurs- embark, or transfer to or take sion they so ardently desire. Be-day's experiences, which were not transfer from any other vessel, cause of that deliency it is ex-

only objectionable but likely to be any passenger or any cargo in the a distine menace to health. We waters of the Colony at Sha U tremely important that the policy now urge the authorities to take Chung, unless the person in charge

inta power.

or dis-

Professor Raymond Parrington. Nothing is without. life," says, Even things like wood or metal, ordinarily regarded as inanimate, have life in some degree." Having

WASTED LIVES.

drink from. A Frenchman wasted three years of his life raising his hat and deciding which should go through the doorway irst. A donker wasted three years of its short life braying, a good looking life looking in a mirror, à plain- woman wasted three years of her.

of the Mother Country towards in hand at the earliest posable of the, vessel then holds a valid

LORD DEWAN'S EPIGRAMS. the Dominions should be one of tuary to a more suitable al signed by the District Officer, epigrams at a dinner in London montent the removal of the or- permit in writing in that behalf wise consistency and broad gym-Nothing less than this

Lord Dowar, evolved some new, pathy. Mr. Amery was nothing satisfy those who have the misor disembarkation or transference bowling team who have been tour-looking woman wasted three years.

will North, and unless the embarkation to members of the South African if not helpful in this regard and fortune to live in the neighbour is in strict accordance with 'suching this country. his speech should do much to hood of the present building. encourage Britishers In British possessions oversons.

Time was,

permit.

of her life looking in a mirror.

waiting for the correct number, collector, and to death, detica, To Scotsman wasted three years of them that hath cometh the revenue

Most men, he said, did not wake In connection with St. John's up to find themselves famous. they would never have it suggested All women liked bargains, but. Cathedral organ, St. John's Cathe. They usually dreamed they were that they were wearing a bargain. London, July 5.-The Dunlop dral Notes states:-The altera- famous, and then woke up. not so very many years ago, when Rubber Company has arranged to tions to the Cathedral organ are wasted three years of our lives, but by his wife's clothes

We Judge not a man by his clothes, the majority of the Dominions sell its Indian business to a new felt that Britian had practically company which is being formed in slowly. "The cauing is now being through the telephone, and one year the futuro, we looked to the tax

proceeding surely we hope if talking about the weather, one

year of our lives saying "Hello" In the past we used to look to all the say in Empire matters and capital will be introduced, the par-

India for that purpose. Indian put in position and will very great- that they were merely expected to ent company, guaranteeing a divid-ly improve the appearance of the acquiesce in whatever decision was end of 6 per cent, on the preference organ. It was feared that while made at White-hall.

shares of the new company, which the main work of recontraction their lives tolling stories against Thanks to a will be offered for subscription in was being done the argan would themselves. Engilahmen, wasted officer. Providence giveth and the fiberal-minded policy of successive India. This will involve a maxi- be entirely out of action, but Mr. three years of their lives listen tax collector, taketh away Tolk Governments, and capéelally to the mum contingent liability of 13,500 Blackett has devised and ingealus ign to.Jdws and Scotargen, telling was cheap until, it got into, love great changes that were made annually, but the whole of the or method of having a keyboard, tales against themselves. Ameri- letters. Some men electrified their dinary share capital of the Indian placed in the back of the choir cans wasted three years of their after the war, that feeling has company will be retained by the stalls by which the choir organ can lives trying to find out where audiences; others only gassed been all but totally dissipated, and Dunlop Company.

their fellow-citizens got their them.

still be used.