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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CUT DOWN EXPENSES

in your kitchen by using a Pansy or Ideal Cooking Stovo, which have been specially adapted to meet the roquirements of the house-" holder in China.

Economy in fuel la ensured by the use of the cheapest grado of coal which will give resulta unsurpassed by stoves requiring the best grade of coal.

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We have a stove for every purpose.

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HONGKONG, 1617, Connaught Road, Centru).

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MEFFANAt Government Civil Hospital on the 3rd Sept 1926. to Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Meffan, a daughter.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Mr. John R. Kinghorn and Family desire to thank their friends for their kind expressions of sympathy with them in their sad bereavement, and also for the floral tributes and their attendance at the funeral of the late Mrs. J. R. Kinghorn.

The TelegraphTM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1926.

been the contre of militarism in the South, and its armige in their latest venture are carrying, mili- tarism into provinces whose people want nothing botter than to be left alone to carry on their avoca-» tlona In peace and quietude. Knowing also how the boycott in South China has affected Chinese trade, we do not imagine that the business men of Central China

DAY BY DAY.

HAPPINESS IN NOT PERFECTED UN- TIL IT. 18 SHARED-Jana Porter.

There was again a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday,

Manlia, notifies a typhoon in' about 185 Long, and 20. Lat., Its direction being unknown, a

The s.8. St, Albans, which left Manila yesterday, is due here at daylight on the 6th instant.

will welcome the efforts belug

The annual meeting of the Kow- made to interfere with their com-loon Cricket Club is to be held on

Friday, September 17th... merce, which is what the move, mont must inevitably entail” · '.

There is one aspect of this boy- cott business which ought not to be overlooked at the moment. It is that the more extended" the movement becomes, the more lik lihood is there of evoutual inter- national action to put a stop to

It.

In this connection it cannot be too often reiterated that the movement is utterly illegal and in flagrant contravention of Treaty Not only so, but it

agreements.

is being operated in such a way

A petition for the winding up of the Wa On Steamship Co., Ltd., is to be heard in the Supreme Court at 10.30 am. qn the 15th instant.

MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany கு

Ashley Sterne

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SONNET TO MY CRICKET BAT. Dear tried companion of the

.tented fold,

You

Where any a dospirate con-

fict has been fought,

O hard it la that dosting should

thwart

of your due! To you the Fates should yield.

Some honourable sear; and

yet they've brought

That eminent botanist Professor and 5.a.m. on Saturdayo. Thero Linaous Leberwurst of Schla Is no band, but Professor Titus kelbrod, is now on holiday in Swis-A. Fiddler gives a violin recitil zerland, where, being an enthusi-daily during licensed hours: out. natië Alpine climber, he is pro-side the jug-and-bottle entrance to posing to climb that difficult peak the "Whitebait Bleachers Arms." known as the Grosser Freidegg. The worst of it is, however, that the Professor becomes so absorbed In examining the Alpino flora dur- ing the ascent, that he is perpetu- ally getting into dimculties. Last year, for instance, when climbing the hazardous Klaxonhorn, he ab served a singularly find specimen of the rare yodelweiss growing just beneath the lip of a precipice. He promptly gave his guide the securo slip, and attempted to the flower; but he ever reached himself and fell slap into the mid-

Aroused by the Professor'a assist- dle of a recently fallen avalanche.

ance, the guide rushed to the spot, but having left his snow-plough at home, he failed to excavate the victim. Fortunately there was a monastery handy where the guide was able to borrow a St. Bernard dog. The sagacious animal evontu? His Excellency the Governor has ally managed to lick the Professor appointed Mr. T. G. Weall, to be a out of his gelid environment, little Member of the Advisory Commit- the worse for his fall. I regret tee of the Hongkong Volunteer De-to say, however, that the faithful fence Corps vice Mr. Sewell, re- signed.

It is proclaimed by order of His Excellency the Governor in Cour- cl that Tsingtao is a place at which an infectious or contagious disease prevails.

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In the London Gazette of July 23rd, it was noted that Majer R. Lewis, R.A.M.G, had been promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Col,

as to injure the trade not only of Britain but of other nations as well, in which connection weas from July 10th. may mention the interference to which shipping of many nations has become subjected, There must be a limit to the patience of the Powers in their dealings with China, and in the event of the boy cctt movement being, extended, we can' foresee the possibility of more surious notice being taken of it in high quarters than has so far been the case. The extremists in China may yet have cause to re-lony.. gret their activities.

Less Swimming?

There will be quite a lot of local congratulations extended to J. R. Johnstone who is doing so remark- ably well in the Shanghai swim- ming world this year, for he is none other than the Hongkong boy

hound succumbed the following day to an attack of abdominal frost-bite.complicated with interu- al chilblains.

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It is notified that the Colonial Secretary has seen fit to strike the

I hear it stated that one of the name of Dr. Chu Ho-quen off the register of medical and surgical aspirants to this season's cross- practitioners qualified to practise channel honours" is a waiter em medicine and surgery in this Co-ployed at one of the South Coast hotels. If he works at the hotel

The bazaar in aid of the Church' For Christ in China (Tso Chai) bad another successful day yesterday when good business was done at the many stalls in the compound on Bonham Road. It will conclude to-day..

His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve the appoint- ment of the Hon. Sir H. E. Pollock,

of the Executive Council for a fur- ther period of Ave years, with effect from 9th March, 1926.

I have in mind, which is not exact

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No war-wound since the day that

you were bought -A..willow fit for Hobbs himself to

Wield!.

Fair is

snow;

your surface as the driven Firm is your splice na when I

had you now;

No black-thread binding holde

you, in its thrall, Would that it did! But now let

all then know

The fault is mine. No stigma

rests on you

That always I get out cloan-bowlod

Arst ball!"

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The London Season of 1926, now rapidly drawing to its close, will be notable if only for the brilliant reception given" last week by Lady Skimp. Over 150 guests as- sembled in a flat nominally de signed to hold two. The refresh- ments were excellent, what. there was of them; and the champagne not only flowed like water, but closely resembled it both in ap- pearance and flavour. The Savoy: Orphans band provided the music, But it was a little unfortunate (or

perhaps fortunate) that owing to

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1926. whom we all know as a past local K.C., to be an Unofficial Memberly celebrated for the swiftness the exigence of space, they had to

SPREADING THE

BOYCOTT.

champion. In the last newspapers to hand we learned that he had won the half mile championship in a new Shanghai record, and he has also put up new records for the 100 yards and other distances. Hongkong's swimming prowess is When the Canton northern exindeed weakened by his transfer-motor-driver, of Danc End, Ware pedition was launched, there was much flamboyant talk of the high ideals animating the leaders of the venture, chief of which was

ence to the northern port. The thought is irresistible that this Colony has not been taking its bathing and swimming quite so. seriously of Inte as in former

For being drunk in charge of motor car at Chadwell Health (Essex), Joseph Hillyard, 32, (Hests), was sent to prison for two month's hard labour at Strat

ford.

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manage

'the

of its table-service, he ought play suspended in a builder's cradle outside the window, where journey comfortably between the they were totally inaudible. Mme soup and the fish..

Colora Tura, Intely a member of the National Grand, Uproar Co., This, by the way, reminds me was to have sung, but was pre- that that old fool, Barmion Crum-vented at the last moment "by a pett, tells me he is going to make meringue exploding in her mouth another attempt at swimming the at supper. Instead the gracious channel next month. Readers may hostess herself recited "Paradise remember that last year he stuck Lost" in Russian. A memorable headfirst in the mad through start-evening which none of those pre- ing from Southend Pier when the sent will ever forget however tide was out. This time, however, hard they try.

he is starting from Dover, diving in from the top of the Shakespeare Clin. There is no mud there, he

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W HOME AND COLONIAL NEWS.

can't get buried head downwards and Colonial Stores, Ltd.)

in, solid rock. He stands, I think, It was erroneously reported last a very good chance of success week that the inventor of a new He has been studying the charts method of falling off a ladder was of previous swimmers, and has a Hongkong harp-tuner's assist- been greatly struck by the fact ant. It is now learnt that he is that they were all drifted many a clerk in a Government office. His miles to the right (Le. westwarda) brother doesn't do any work in the course of the swim.

In either.

It is provided under the Public the expressed intention of liber years, and we think that this isces Regulation Ordinance that ating the people from the clutches to be lamented. Although we unauthorised person shall en- of militarists and the unifying of have had a report from a Publicter, or be in or upon any pavilion Bathing' Beaches Committee there used in connection with any re-

creation ground in the public says; only rocks and boulders: (Kindly contributed as before by China into one undivided nation has been an obvious falling off in places referred to in the Ordinand, as he very soundly argues, he the head butter taster to the Home owing allegiance to a central the popularity of bathing, doubt-

ance. less due to the inconvenient loca-.) authority? If, however, we are tion of most of the benches. Bath-

The forthcoming weddings are to fudge by the latest pronounce- ing parties are fewer and the announced of Mr. Henrique Jose ments from Canton, the principal beaches less purtonised, we are Prais, clerk, Shameen, Canton, to pbject now aimed at is the extentold," Stonecutter's beach has inost Miss Angela Maria dos Remedios, I certainly been less frequented, and sion of the anti-British boycott our old friends of the V.R.G., who No. 6, Humphrey's Avenue, Kow into other Provinces, for much is have nurtured and fostered com- loon; and Mr. W. J. Collom, master being said and written which petitive swimming and all acquatic mariner, residing at No. 219, makes it evident that a big at- sports for years past, have not Wanchai Road, to Miss Ruby Mak, order, therefore, to counteract |

this drift, he has decided to Crushing has been begun in the been so lavish in their provision of the same address. tempt on these lines is to be made. of public programmes. The young

swim left handed, £ manoeuvre newly discovered pearl mines in There was a large gathering at which he confidently predicts will Perth, (WA) On the first day Indeed, it is freely stated that pro-men of the Colony do not seem

a dead they crushed the mine-manager's pagandists have been sent with to be so keen to excel in swim the Club Lusitano last night, when enable him to keep

ming as were the young men of, a demonstration was given with straight course. In his own hat; on the second, the char- the armies for this expresa pur-any, ten or oven five years ago, the new musical recording instru- words, he hopes to swim as the woman's corn; and on the third,»

the office blackbeetle. pose, whilst the Boycott Com- and the measure of public interest ment, the Panatrope. The demon- bee sucks."

matter as, the stration was in every way a suc mittee itself has been freely cir-taken in such a

Water Polo League' is not so great cess and was greatly enjoyed by all culating telegrams to various or-

aa it was. And we think that a prosent. A public demonstration ganisations in Hunan urging them great deal of this can be traced is to be given later, but meanwhile to stir up the people to sprend back to the difficulty of the aver the instrument can be heard at the

age young man and young woman Brunswick House, Ice the boycott movement.

in getting regular and handy Street. bathing. It is often the matter

A vinegar manufacturer of STEINE'S HOLIDAY GUYED.

Twichley St. Vitus has been fined SLUSHPOOL-ON-THE-OOZE. This is £1,000 for diluting his produce another very quiet spot for the with German claret.¦- weary and jaded City toller. The House

The wife of a sun-dial merchant native inhabitants make very litat Moosejaw (Canada) tripped and tle noise, being chiefly employed fell into a copper yesterday. The in picking soft roes and the manu- health facture of wadding.

It is easily copper kindly conducted her home, shows getatable from the neighbouring Dam Ras Kal, a Bombay yogi, ended villages of Mudwich and Slime has buried himself in melon-pips, that this is to be done "in order ready and cheap bathing facilities August 28 there were two cases of haven, but from nowhere else. and announced his intention of re- to comply with the wishes of our are looked upon as an amenity of Plague at Rangoon; of cholora Hence it is very aaleet. The airmaining thus until he has counted

The Boycott "Committee, in its telegrams, boasts of its determina-of a journey, and, there's all the The League of Nations tion to continue the struggle, and Fax and bother of making arrange bulletin of Eastern parts

ments, ete. We have not yet de- that during the week even goes the length of saying veloped to the outlook where easy,

great social and healthful value, there were two cases at Bangkok, is very strong, being composed of

a billion. countrymen." The "countrymen" and the Bathing Beaches Com-16 at Amoy, one at Port Arthur, 40 per cent. gasworks and 60 per

100 at Shanghai, one at Yoko- cent. decayed seaweed. Free Haddock moors are fetching re- concerned are no doubt confined mittce proved itself as being withhama, one at Rangoon and one at winkles, limpets, and starfish may cord rentals for the, haddock- to, professional agitators who are out much vision in the matter.

Bombay, and of small pox seven be gathered on the beach, and stalking season, says an unstamp- at Bombay eight at Madras and family mixed paddling is permli-ed postcard from our Aberdeen making a good thing out. of the

seven at Bangkok.

tod between the hours of 3 him. correspondent, movement, together with the more extremist section of the politicians of South China. Then there is mention made of the past hard-

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I venture to think that a man.

Fassengers departing yesterday

Sir William Veno arrived at Li-doubtedly the best medium, and is safer in the hands of the Bench than he would be in the hands of bys.s. Empress of Canada for verpool in the White Star liner for many years it had been his

Vancouver via ports, inclulled a present-day jury, One finds the ships suffered by the people of fair sex far more severe than the Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. M. W. Adriatic, after attending the Ad practice to use 85 to 05 per cent.

He was, ho said, ing for the Press alone. Hunan because they have been old-fashioned Jury. The above Bailward, Captain W. Brower, Mr. Vertising Convention at Philadel of his appropriation for advertis- somewhat surprising tribute to CF. Bellamy, Mr. J. M. Han one of the party of 40 British de-

"If the civilised peoples of the under the rule of militarists, as the "softer sex" was made by Sir derson, Lieut. and Mrs. S. legates. They were received with though their lot is likely to be Herbert Nield, M. P., Recorder of Landera, Lieut, and Mrs. P. W the utmost cordiality everywhere, world knew what air warfare changed for the better when the York, at Standing Coramittee on Lewis, Mr. C. Mancini, Mr. and and the Convention was a great meant they would put the jingoes Southern armies over-run their the Judicial Proceedings (Regulars. O. and the Misses P and R. success. Speaking of advertising where they properly belonged in tion of Reports). Bill which seeks Kitchell, Lieut. and Mrs. J. O generally, Sir Willam Vano dald the lunatle asylums Lord thom- province. The plain fact, of to regulate such reports so as to Rendy, Lieut. Roberts, Mrs. J. H. his experience had shown him that son, at a London Commercial Club

un-luncheon: course, is that Canton has long prevent injury to public morals. Seth, Dr. and Mrs. W. Wagner. the modern newspaper was