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The Telegraph

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1926.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1926.

about possessing faith, that wo shall soon witnesa a revival of trado and prosperity. Are we do ing anything to prepare for those

DAY BY DAY.

HOW THEFIGULT IT IS TO BAVE THE BARK OF REPUTATION FROM "TIE ¡ROCKS OF IGORANCE-Petrarch.!

The Empress of Asia, leaves Manila at 4 pm. to-day and is due hero at 6 a.m. on Monday.

If we are not then surely we are adopting a short-sighted, The Kowloon Cricket Club policy? Hongkong lives by ship Concert takes place to-night. \/ ping, it is the natural deep-water: Port of South China and as the overseas trade of South Chinn both inwards and outwards "will novitably continue to grow in spite of such arbitrary interfer- onces as the present boycott-it Rules made by the Kowloon Can should be apparent to our adminton Railway regarding the use of the Taipo railway pler and bund by istrators here that one of the finest vessels are contained in the Gazette. ways they can help the Colony is to spend money to Improve and cheapen the shipping facilities of

the 'Port.

....

Anything that make berthing, cargo-handling, transhipping, etc., cheap and attractive will be an investment of the soundest kind. But one finds that the work of port development has been shelved, and that the office and.

The rescission of order proclaim ing Amoy an infected place is notified in the Gerotic.

MIXED GRILL Ashley Sterne

A Merry Miscellany

Shawls for the seashore, in place of the ordinary bathing cloaks of buth-towelling, are to be one of the fashion sensations of the PRAMON

Mr. Beasley Tosher, that fusat but drivelling young poet, writes me apropos of my last week's verses, the first line of which was reminiscent of. John Masefield, Thus saith my illuminating and that he has always considered the Instructive daily paper; and as I latter's "Son Fever" if suitably. should awfully like to be part of rewritten, would make a very good a fashion sensation. I must see coon-song of the "want-to-go-back about buying a shawl at ones. somewhere" type. He encloses Unfortunately, my paper doce.not for my use the following verses mention what sort of a shawl is in illustration of what he means. required to create a fashion sensa-They are clearly designed to be A report dated 6th August, has tion, and since the only species of aong to the chorus-melody of been received from the Master of shawl with which I have a nodding "Down on the farm." the as. Halvard that the buoy in-acquaintance is the kind the week I wanna gobuck side Orange Island (approaches to ly charlady wears, I shall have to 1 wanna go back

make a start with a similar spect Where the whales go

Wanna go back to the sea, Hongay) is missing...

men, and ses what happens. Can't And the gaila, blow, you hear the Kodaks loosing off And the flung spray's flung on me! when I step out of my hotel at All

ask i Bughampton (the Hotel Superbe, A tall ship and a star;

All I nak is.. V

Charmant at Exquis) thus array "Way down at Brightlingsca, Magnifique, Splendid, Glorieux,.|

Of how I long to be, ed? But why shouldn't I do the Inside the bar!

A report dated 7th August, has been received from the Master, of the ss. Tean that a derelict junk at: 21. 42.30 N., Long, 113, 33. 30. is floating bottom up just awash

It is notified that, at the

ex-

"It is notified that, at the expira- its staff has been merged with tion of three months, the E, F. the Public Works Department a Cox and Company, Limited will, Department which (despite the ex-unlegs causé is shown to the con- cellence of its routine work) has trary, be struck off the register and

the Company will be dissolved. not displayed 11 tremendous amount of progressive initiative of late. Certain it is that there is room for profitable attention to our harbour the trade on which With the going aground of the has so often and truly been term- President McKinley off Kowlooned the Colony's life-blood.

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HARBOUR NEEDS.

Site, But No Hospital.

piration of three months, the Yee Lok Company Ltd, will unless, cause is shown to the contrary, be thing properly while I'm about it,

the and wear,

in addition, elastic. struck off the register and

sided boots and a cloth cap af- Company will be dissolved.

fixed to my head with a hat-pin According to a report made at the size of Excalibur, and carry the Harbour Office by the British under my arm a large brown- India s.8. Talma, Mr. D. J. Ramsay, paper parcel from which the bone the chief engineer, died, from heart of a cold leg of mutton protrudes? failure while on the way from Amoy This, I venture to say, would cause. something more than a fashion sensation. It would cause a fashion panic.

The street commencing at Yes Kik Street being the first street, cast of Nan Chang Street and run- ning in a north-easterly direction and terminating at its function With TAI FO Road is to be known

as Shek Kip Mei Street.

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"You say, constable," observed the newly created rural J. F. "that when you remonstrated with him the prisonas took imbrage""

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wanna 50 back

I wanna go back

Just to hear the seagull's cry,

And to feel quick,

The steering wheel kick,

And the blown spume in my eye!

All I ask is-

All I ask is-

A big, white, shaking sail;

O, how I wish I were,

At Weston-super-mare,

Out in a gale!

I wanna go back- To the good tie tipsy life, When the clouds y In their crowda by," And the wind's like a ratty wife!

wanna go buck-

All

I ask

All I ask

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A laughing zover'e yarn;

how I long to bu Way home in Tennessee,

Yes, your Worship." "Well, what I want to know is Mr. 6. A. H. Macpherson, of did the prisoner subsequently re-Back on the farm: the Borneo Co. Ltd., Bangkok, has turn the stalen umbrage?" been committed for trial in the High Court there on a charge of driving his car at an excessive speed and killing a Malay woman on July 27th...

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that old fool, Professor Barmion

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assisted in the silting up of this is somewhat in the dark, regarding murder of another man by pour- has now gone to Mudbaden (Up- convict prisons: states that the

lamutes are excellent. So join

that rousing song: Oak-um."

"Hearts of

Point.on Thursday evening, at a spot where the chart shows that Chere is at least 30. feet of water at low tide, a clear case is made We were hoping that at Thurs-to-Hongkong out for the dredging of this area. day's meeting of the Finance Com- mittee of the Legislative Council, Only a fortnight. previously, the some information would have been motor ship Danmark stuck on the forthcoming regarding the present soft mud bank there for several state of the War Memorial Nurs- ing Home scheme. A vote for hours and prior to that the motor $6,000 was asked for and approved ship Tongking had also been in regard to the access road lead- stranded during low tide. For- ing to the site, and even on that point there appeared to be some tunately, in no one case was any

Grateful though I shall ever be diversity of opinion as to the

to Mr. Tosher for the use of these" damage sustained by the vessels Government's liability in the mat-

On the contents-bill, of averses, I nevertheless felt com- concerned, but the authorities of ter, We are not so much concern

popular weekly I recently saw the pelled to point out to him that the Fort-the Hongkong Governed over this issue, however, as we

question; "How many wives has farm" doesn't (and never did) are over the question of the pro-

a whale?" and ever since I have rhyme with "yarn," and that ment-must see to it as early as vision of the Nursing Home itself.

been. worrying around trying to Tennessee isn't (and never will possible that the depth of this The site has long since been pre- The Traffic Office notifies that ascertain the answer. Curiously be anywhere near the const. To fairway is made to accord with pared and the road leading there Queen's Road, East, between enough I had never before sua- these objections Mr. Tosher mere Street and Gresson pected that there was such a thingly remarked that it's for the the soundings marked on the to is practically finished, although Arsenal

both have suffered somewhat as a Street, will be closed to vehicular as a whaless. One never hears of privilege of making little discre- charts of the harbour. It is our result of the recent foods. But traffic on Sunday. Traffic will be an oystress, or a lobstress, or apancies like these that they make mised that

the recent heavy rains the main point is that we have the diverted via the Praya East and Mrs. John Dory, so why should him take out his poet's license. which washed large quantities of site, and we have the road but Gresson Street to Queen's Road there be a whaless? In my per-

plexity I wired the question to One of our M. P's who has re sand and silt into the harbour has foundations for one! The 'public

we have no hospital; nor even the East, and vice versa...

The Chinese charged with the Crumpett, F.Z.S., who, by the by,cently been making a tour of our point, a spit now running out in the progress of the scheme,...how..

ing boiling water over him while per Magnesia) to drink the mud general, bealth and stamina of the. south-westerly direction from much money has been raised, by he was asleep was committed for He promptly wired buck: "Which

what means it has been secured trial at the Criminal Sessions by whale 7" which just shows how with me my hearties, in ringing Blackhead's Point. This could and what prospects, there are for Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday. The drinking the mud goes straight to soon be proved by a series of the construction of the hospital. defendant intimated that he would the head. But I wasn't going to soundings at various states of the If matters are not soon expedited, call his wife na witness.

let him shirk the question in that it will be somewhat of an, anomaly

manner, so wired back Second tide and a dredger put to work to describe the institution as a Observatory returns for July whale on the left up the Behring This work falls on the Port De-

war memorial by the time it is show that the average mean teri, Straits," to which he replied: velopment office of the Public ready for opening. Since the sito perature was 82.1, the highest "One shilling each way Austra

was first chosen, there have been being 91.3, and the lowest 73.3. lane."

MENOM Works Department and ought to

And that's how the matter suggestions, that it might not be There were 221.7 hours of sunshine be put in hand right away.

used for the purpose for which it and 29.79 inches of rain, whilst the stands at the moment. I propose, in water, drop in a dead canary. Looking after matters connected has been prepared, but on this average humidity, was 81. The however, to renew my researches with the upkeep or development point no definite information has maximum wind velocity recorded at an early opportunity, and at was 86 miles per hour on the 22nd: the same time endeavour to solve one or two other little problems of the harbour seems to have been since been forthcoming. It would, however, seem only common sense

There has been added to thein marine biology as, for instance: relegated to the rank of unimporto adhere to the original site, see Dental Register the name of Mr. Have mermaids got hard rose or tant routine, these days. We all ing that it has been cleared and Chaun Kwokwing, 83, Queen's

Boft? remember the eclat with which the access road leading to it prac Road Central. Mr. Chan is not Is it unlucky to eat a winkle with a

black pint tically comploted. The chief qualified for registration but is Do bivalves commit bigamy? the Port Development Department need, however, is that some defi- exempted from provisions of Or Do prawns make good godfathers?,

Do whetke wed with whitebait? was launched under Mr. John nite steps be taken towards dinance by certificate anted 6th Can turbot perspira? Duncan and how this important actual construction, and we trust August, 1926, as holder of the work was detached altogether that there will be no further de- degree of Doctor of Dental Eur

lay in the matter..

gery conferred by the University from the Public Works Depart-

of Pennsylvania, U. S. A. ment and given its own executive head. After the departure of Mr. Duncan, followed later by the strike "and boycott, the Depart mont seemed to lose its impor Paris;

Brussels tance and the work of it has now Amsterdam. been re-morged into that of the Berlin P.W.D.with a consequent of iden- Copenhagen

Vienna tity and what seems to the gone Holdinfors ral publica loss of initiative. Lisbon

Buenos aires Have all the carefully-planned and

Shanghal expensively-prepared schemes of Yokohama. port development receded entirely New York

EXCHANGE RATES.

Geneva.

MID-DAY FOR FOODSTUFFS into the background? These are Milan,

Lane, Crawford,

Crawford, Limited.

admittedly dull days of trade and Stockholm.

Oslo the facilities of the harbour are Prague Madrid doubtless adequate to meet the

Blo seeds of the decreased quantity Bombay

Hongkong of shipping visiting us, but we all Silver (spot)

Silver (forward) live in hopes, and speak loudly

EARL WHO LOST £300,000.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To make a Swiss roll, take him. up to the top of Pilatus, lay him on his back, and give him a good Eard push,

To prevent nails from tusting

To remove the whiskers from hairy gooseberries, first spoke- shave them and then fub brisky with emery-paper."

Never throw away any disused slices of get dumpling. They make excellent ear-pads for head- Milk will never turn if kept in a trouaer-press." Neither will···

phones.

worm.

Most of the liabilities were due to moneylenders, He. attributed his failure to being without in- Mr. Toc Took-kai, who was

come for the past 18 months. NO INCOME FOR THE PAST Most of the loans from money- mentioned yesterday as one of two

18 MONTHS... unofficial - delegates arriving in Hongkong to approach local 1784 merchants in regard to expediting months, and in the hands of Without income for the past 18, 180% a settlement of the boycott, in money-lenders-thia was stated to

Rugby, August 13,

lenders at high rates of interest.. had been used to repay other money-lenders.

Cotton Gamble,

The Official Receiver reported 12.11 forms us that he is visiting the be the plight of the Earl of Rem that so far as he had been able to -20.40% Colony in a purely private business broke whose creditora met at the ascertain the cart was liable, un- 18.27% capacity, and has not conferred London Bankruptcy Court recent der covenants contained in the

84.374 with any merchants on the sub-ly.. PLATES consolidate doed entered into by

193 | ject named,

.2.17/32

He retired from the Army in him for £840,000 1920 on a pension of £250 a year. The earl's family solicitor said .45.6/10 Notice la given that the Governor He came into the title and est that he lost nearly $300,000 in

2/9% proposes to make an order underates on his father's death in 1918, financing a Mr. Fitzgibbon, who- 1/11.21/13 the Streets (Alteration) Ordinane. The gross income of the estates was gambling, in cotton and be.

4.88.13/10 1923, for closing the extreme was about £28,000, but mortgages came bankrupt.

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southern end. of North Street, as and charges totalled £840,000, and The meeting was adjourned for 18.14% shown on a plan which can be seen the net income wid $4,000 a month.

at the office of the Public Works He executed a receivership deed The statement of affairs, reveal- 184 Department. Any person object under which the income was transed liabilities 208,382 and no assets. 32.3624 lag in the proposed order must ferred to one of the trustees of The deficiency account showed 7.37/4 send his objection in writing to the settlement for the maintenance interest charges since June 1925 12/2 the Colonial Secretary, so as to and benefit of the family and of £44,042, gambling-lossea £1,800," 28% reach the office of the Colonial apart from his pension and some and household and personal ex- 28.11/10 Secretary not later than the 3rd 2600 a year from directors' fees expenses of £2,000 His income -British Wireless.;

day of September, 1926

he had no income,

was stated to bo £160,

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