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WATSON'S E WHISKY

Blonded where it is distilled, and Bottled

where it is blended-in SCOTLAND.

A Skilful blend of the finest matured. Highland Whiskies. A happy result of long years of experience in distill- ing and blending; with a fine flavour that cannot fail to assure appreciation from the most discriminating palate.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Alexandra Building.

WE

STILL MAINTAIN

That there is nothing to compare with

the

ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA

Come in. Test it for Yourself

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

Nature's BEST is in this loaf

Phone C. 61A.

THE GOLDEN GRAIN OF SUN-KISSED WHEAT-

FIELDS MAKES - Lane, Crawford's

BREAD

OUR BAKERY DEPT. (LATE CAFE WISEMAN IS NOW SITUATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR. NEAR GROCERY DEPARTMENT.

NO ORDER TOO LARGE (WE CAN SUPPLY THE COLONY IF NECESSARY) NO ORDER TOO SMALL SEND, PHONE OR CALL FOR ANY QUANTITY OF BREAD, CAKES, OR PASTRIES.

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

·HYGIENIO BAKERS¬~

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1926.

DAY BY DAY.

PROTECT YOUR CAR mand for more accommodation, by Installing a might, in the present conditions be "PYRENE" Fire spent to better advantage. Extinguisher.

At any rate, the whole hospital "PYRENE" will question needs to be thoroughly Skill' fire without explored, in the very near futuro. MENTS SHOULD BEAR, A PART, BUT

damage to the

WHERE NONE SHOLD PLAY TO- GETHER C. Colton

CONVERSATION IS THE MUSIC OF THE MIND; AN INTELLECTUAL or- CHESTRA, WHERE ALL THE INSTRU

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ISLAND SOLD FOR: £2,400,000,

AS BIG AS CORNWALL AND DEVON PUT TOGETHER."

BRITISH DEBT REVISION.

THREE OBSTACLES TO MOVE BY USIAN

Toronto. Senator Gaston Meni-]· ̈“We started out to establish the er, the French "chocolate" king," principle that the war debts of has completed the sale of Anti-European nations were valid. costi Island, in the Gulf of St. That principle has been establi Lawrence, for £2,400,000 to the abed and Great Britain has never Anticosti Corporation (St. Mauri- questioned it, co, Port Alfred, and Wagagamack Paper Companies). variable

There was n.clean bill of health in the Colony over the week-end.

The weather forecast up to neon

winds; fina

engine, woodwork and we trust that no hasty decisions or upholstery will be taken in the matter. Very Water spreads a shortly the renovated wing of the potrol fire; sand is Victoria Hospital will be opened, Inefficient and will and this will relieve the present put the engine out

congestion in the now of action.

this building. It's PYRENE tinguisher is small have been a good thing. If practic-

Mr. Charles Whitley has been ad- in size, tight in able to enlarge the Barker Rond mitted as a partner in the firm of weight and easy to Institution so as to make it avail-A. G. da Rocha, Auctioneer.

able as a general European hospi-

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would, of to-morrow la-Light,

think,

The "Empress of Russia" is due "PYRENE" does tal, for no better site could possibly herd at 8.00 am to-morrow and not deteriorate and be desired for the purposo. But will berth at Pier 5, Kowloon is always ready if extension is not feasible, would' Wharf.

for use. Keop a

it not be possible to set apart a fewThe forthcoming wedding is an- "PYR-wards for male patients until such nounced of Sergeant Frederick Car and in garage time as the War Memorial achenie ger, of the Murray Barack Ride

can be made effective? These and other points require.close considera-

Miss Dorothy Rose Oram, of No.

11 Kennedy Road.

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It is advertised that the Matricu

"That principle having been set. tled, my own faoling, and that of The new company is to issue the organisation I represent, is 6,000,000 Six and a Half per cent that the greatest thing we can do 15 years bonds, ⠀

in the cause of international good- Anticosti is a cigar-shaped. iswill would be to be magnanimous land of 3,120 square miles, nearly and to get the whole question of as big as Devon and Cornwall.'

Groat Britain'é- debt reopened. Game is abundant and the with a view to benevolent revi rivers abound in salmon.

sjon." sista in timber; it would yield

Its main wealth, however, con- Mr. Frederick B. Smith, Chair- man of the Executive Committee. 15,000,000 cords of pulpwood.

M. Menier has already establish of the American section of the World Alliance for International' ed small paper mills,MA

Lately he offered to sell the ig. Friendship through the Churches land, in order to make a substan expressed this opinion to a Morn- tial contribution to the "Save the ing Post representative.

Mr. Smith is a close personal. Frane" fund.

MUSTARD & CO. LTD. tion, and we hope that the manylation, Senior and Junior Examina- Over 80 years ago his yacht sight-minent American Churchman, who

(Incorporated under Companies Ordinances

Points involved are not being lost

sight of in the preparation of the

HONGKONG, 16-17, Connaught Road, Central. | Budget.

DEATH,

M. Menier is a keen.yachtsman, friend of Mr. Peabody, the pro- tions will commence on December ed Anticosti, which appeared ta recently called for an entire can- G: Further particulars may be him as a happy hunting ground, cellation of the British debt.

"I myself am not in favour of | gleaned from an advertisement ap- and he bought it from an English

pearing elsewhere in this issue,

company, it was said, for £25,000. urging so drastic "a step as the It still remained-and it will re- complete cancellation of the debt,"

"Hong Kong" and "Kowloon,"

Amongst the passengers who ar- minin-British, part of the province he said. "Mr. Peabody's state- rived here by the 8.3. Haruna of Quebec, in the Dominion of ment will, I am afraid, tend to

Canada.

have the effect of solidfying the Although the Secretary of State Maru wore Mrs. A. D. Birch, Mr.

opposition. It must be remember- has intimated that for official pur-Le Baum, Mr. H. M. Nemazee, Mr. poses the name of the Colony is in M. M. Nemazee, Mr., W. J. Shen-ings on this matter aro so strong ed that public opinion in the future to be spelt, as two words ton, Mr. J. Turton and Mr..that the idea of letting France off United States is not yet ripe for Iseems to him to be puro lunacy, such a departure from the already "Hong Kong"wo imagine the Wichman. majority of people here will con-

Also, he suspects that France is settled policy, and this is due to tinue" to favour the general rule

bilking Great Britain in regard to certain causes, which, I think, are. prevalent here and still adhere to

her debt, and could afford to pay not quite appreciated in Great "Hongkong." Whilst the Imperial

more than she is at present pay-Britain," These causea, in the Government has, we believe, always

ing

opinion of Mr. Smith, arẻ: favoured the two-word'spelling, the local Government has often come HOSPITAL QUESTIONS. promised with "HongKong." Of

ROOPER.--At 7 Peace Avenue, Homuntin, Kowloon, at 12.10 p.m. on 5th inst, Mrs. A. Roo- 'per, age 71.

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The Telegraph

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,-1926.

With the near approach of Bud- get Day, we presume that the Government is beginning to prepare its appropriations for the year

Five Chinese were fined $3 each for gambling, by, Mr. R. E. Lind- soll this morning. It was stated by Detective Sergeant McEwen that the defendants were caught in a raid on a large gambling school which was being conducted on the roof of a building.

Mr. T. Funatsu, formerly Japan- Shanghai and Mukden, who is now esc Congul-General in Hongkong,

Director-General of the Japanese. Cotton Mill Owners Association in China, has returned to Shang hai from Nanking after a confer ence with Marshal Sun Chuan- fang and the Civil Governor of Kiangsu, Mr. Chen Tao-pi.

course, all these spellings, are cor ruptions of "Heung Kong," or "Fragrant Streams," the name by when sailing ships put in here in which the island came to be known the early days and secured their water supplies from a spot near 1927.

Aberdeen which the seafaring men More than usual interest heard the natives refer to as will attach to the disposition of "Houng Kong:" Another version public funds for the coming twelve which we have heard is that these months, because the Colony will ships obtained their water from a stream or "long" at the place now have had a complete year of the known as Little Hongkong, near boycott effects to guide, it in its which the Heung clan resided. estimating of the revenue and ex-ed to speak of the place as the They therefore became accustom penditure. When the last Budget Heung Kong, and in course of time was introduced, it was not known this was corrupted into Hong Sunning, Talamba,

As kong"

the peninsula exactly how the strike and boycott across the harbour, Offcialdom has Maru, Empress of Russia, Latsang, would affect the Colony's finances, and naturally a good deal of lati- tude had to be shown in framing the Estimate. Time has shown,

to

now made a concession to the pop- lar spelling of "Kowloon," which is a corruption of "Kau Lùng," or "Nine Dragons." The origin of this name is that there are nine

Lack of assurance that Bu- rope' will not plunge into an- other war if the relief Incident to debt cancellation is granted. Participation by European notubly British, shipping, French, and Italian in ram-run- ing,

"Americans generally greatly resent the participation of Eu- rope shipping in the importation of liquor. This question is 4 burning one with the mujority of. the nation, and is certainly having of many who are inclined to look the effect of hardening the hearts

with a favourable eye on the desire of Great Britain for the States. reopening of the debt question."

Higher taxation in the United

With regard to the first point, In conclusion, Mr. Smith said before the question of the debt is that the policy now was for the reopened, we should certainly best instructed minds in the want, an assurance that such na United States favourable to a re-tions.ns France, with her' army of vision of the debt terms to do their 800,000 soldiers, does not intend best to level up public opinion to use them aggressively," said with a view to getting the discus- Mr. Smith

"The ordinary American's feel-

The following vessels are expect with Hongkong to-day-Elkridge, sion reopened. ed to be in wireless communication

Albans, Indus Maru, Tisondari, Zosma, Yuensang, Tjikarang, St.

Kumamoto

Limehow, Pres. Grant, Callandia Sarpedon, Haruna Maru, Tjisaroes, Chinese Prince and Taikwa Maru.

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An armed robbery is reported

however, that conditions have not peaks visible on the range of hills from Saikung village, Ng Sal- been nearly so bad as was at firatas scent from this side of the har-Look, the master of a fishing boat,

The Very

Idea!

expected, and, thanks to the con-Kowloon" has been in very gen

bour. The popular spelling of stated that two men, one of whom It is announced that the rank ambulator is good as an example was armed with a revolver and the of surgeon-captain (dental) has of animal-can one say "animal" servative policy followed, the pre-eral use, but Officialdom has long other with a dagger,. came on been established in the Royal about a bird?—of animal intelll- sent year should show our finances held on to "Kau Lung," a form board whilst the vessel was lying Navy.

to be in a far healthier condition which now once and for all is dis-at anchor off the village, and He will be entitled to a salute of

or

carded.

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CAFE PARISIEN.

SATURDAY'S SPECIAL

DINNER.

gence

It is not so good however as the threatened him and his

wife nineteen clicks of all the false story of the cat, who borrowed a They ransacked the boat and stole teeth worn by the ship's company mechanical mouse from the money and property to this value whenever he comes on board. nursey and walked past the of $550. A subsequent report

Ratings, in possession of their mouse-holes in the kitchen arm-in- stated that the master and his own dentures will bare same in n arm with it for hours, talking wife were both taken to Hospital brond smile, and winches will be loudly in the friendliest fashion. presumably as a consequence of turned rapidly to produce injuries received at the hands of subdued roar like that of. the robbers.

* civilion 'dentist's drill...

The expression "false teeth" includes teeth, false.".

Among the passengers leaving Hongkong on the P. & O. 5.s. Mace- donia on Saturday were Lieut.

G. F. Agulter, Miss C.. Trimmer,"

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WANTED.

A pair of suspenders for the breeches of promise.

A barber to shave the face of

earth."

A dentist to work on the jaws of death,

From a small seaside town's the local time-table- e Saturdays only.. i. a.m.

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. He threw a rock out at a frog, As it went hopping by.. He missed his shot, and the frog.

Just croaked, but didn't die,

than was anticipated to be the case.

Amongst the many important. matters to be faced will be the 'question of the future of the Colony's hospi- tal facilities, and, in particular, the desirability or otherwise of going on with the suggested scheme for

An extremely enjoyable evening a new Government Civil Hospital. was spent by those who attended The present building is admittedly the special dinner at the Cafe in a poor condition, and if it is to in addition to an extra special Mr. C. D. Stecic, Mr. J. H. Rutton- Parisien on Saturday night, when, be retained it will need a lot of menu, there were special features, Jee, Mr. D. H. Clarke, Surg-Lieut. muney spent on it. However, we including a fire-eating display. Comdr. F. C. Hunot, Mr and Mrs. are doubtful us to the wisdom There was a big demand for seat.. Murray-Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. The latter Item is presumably desirability of putting up a new carly in the evening, the manager, Swane, Licut. J. A. Hunter, Lieut-on Friday and find that the train is ing accommodation, and quite A. H. C. Rostrom, Lieut. N. L. for the use of those who turn up hospital in the same locality. Wo Mr. Landau,, had no option but to Comdr. J. W: Durnford, Mr, C. Me- not running.

Dowell, Mr. Gillespie, Mr. Arthur still think the neighbourhood al-turn many couples away together unsuited for a general hos-

A remarkable turn was provided Lieut. R. T. Gardner, Comdr. S. E. Nicholls, Lieut. H. A. C. Biddulph, pital where both Europeans and by Bill Marr, lately returned from Thomas, Mr. R. Montgomery, Mr. non-Europeans would be treated, of fire-eating, which aroused Mrs. and Miss Hall-Jones and Canada, who gave an exhibition and Mrs. C. F. Oliver, Miss Oliver, and would fur prefer some better intense interest. He pushed

Mrs.-T. W. Grant, locality being selected if a new ins-blazing halls of Inflammable titution is really needed.

material on long sticks Into, his The mouth, and on removing the sticks" point was made by the Government the flames were left on his lips for some time back that with the open- several 'seconds. To prove that ing of the new Kowloon Hospital the fire was real he lit paper from

it. Later in the evening he gave Parle and the scheme for a War Memorial other turns.

Brussels Nursing Home the pressure on the

Geneva Competition dancing proved a Berlin G. C. H. would most likely decrease popular feature. Numbers were Copenhagen

Vienna rather than otherwise. It is trug marked on the floor and when the

Helsingfors, that the War Memorial scheme 1 music stopped the dancers stood Lisbon

on the numbers' nearest to them, Buenos Aires still "in the air," but it seems to us those on the lucky numbera re Shanghai that a definite decision regarding celving large boxes of chocolates. New York. Yokohama a new and enlarged Government Only three couples, entered for Milan Civil Hospital should not be reach the Charleston "champion" dance; Amsterdam

Stockholmi cd until it is known whether the Y, Buckles and Mr. H. V. Pearse Prague

the judges for which were Mr. Qu Ocio Nursing Home project is likely to The trophy, a large doll, was won Madrid. be put into effect. A bigger and by Mr. B. Wynne and Mra. R. E. Ri

Bombay Spurgeon. The other couples Hongkong

EXCHANGE RATES.

a better G. C. H. would involve the were Mr. S. J. Bradsell and Mise Silver (spot)

Sen horses to feed from the.

trough of the sea.

A few seeds from the flower of specch

A pen that will write with inky darkness. of time.

A pair of corsets. for the waist

Witness: They had to put an artificial respiration on her:

He þad taken just enough of the she recovered. glass that cheers to weaken the

usual barriers of restraint, and According to Dr. Elizabeth he turned to a well-known pro- Sloan Chesser, quiet people get a fessor who was sitting" opposite reputation for wisdom; but it is him in the tramcar...

the chatterboxes who have ideas.". "Some folks think they kon an That may hold true in the 1,634

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The professor remained absorb. ed la his book..

"I was saying that some folks think they know a lot"

No reply.

grown-ups.

Of course it all depends upon what is meant by a chatterbox. One would hardly apply the word to a brilliant talker, however loquacious, Rather a chafterbox Drawing himself up with a is one who suffers from a super- 4.85% comical semblance of outraged fluity of words without being able 100% dignity, the talkative man fired to convey any ideas that are 18.16 a last shot: "I suppose you think worth notice, p

you ken a lot, but I ken something Some dull, quiet people may get more than you do. My wife is a negative reputation for wisdom) your wife's washerwoman, and simply because they never give I'm wearin' one'd' your shirts,” themselves away. But the true

chatterbox does nothing els

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outlay of a big su of money Bridat, and Mr. Culver and Miss Silver (forward) which, if there is no pressing de Stephens,

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The story of the robin that That is partly why the tribe prove hatched out four ogga In a per- 30 frritating to normal people.