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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926.

'paign of Intimidation. The orio stap seems to us to be the natural corollary of the other.. Once the rickets wore dispersed, the boycott would not Inet a day, which is the Burost proof of the prtificat nature. of the movement.

There is one other factor. of the boycott which has not been sufl

DAY BY DAY.

FORBEAR TO JUDGE. FOR WE SINNERS ALL--Shakespeare.

There was a clean bill of health In the Colony yesterday.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Dr. S. S. Strahan to be

MIXED GRILL

By

A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne

ciently emphasised-namely, that it a Member, of the Medical Board, land, and so, my hearties, if you Dear Wemblor, since upon thy.

results not only in interruption of British trade, but with other for eign commerce as well. Foreign shipping Interests have a right to send their ships to any port in the Far East, yet the boycott organisa- tion decrees that if they happen to call at Hongkong they are liable

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I have recently been sponding a And let me wail in anguish "Ichabod!" short holiday in the Bernese Ober. For surely has the glory gone from

those have detected a more than usually. honoured sod Passengers arriving yesterday for the last week or two, you must

noble and lofty tone in this column Th encroaching from Japan and the north by 3.8.

balidor, b and hed,

plying trowal attribute it! Malwa included Major Fluence of the high altitude at which where

Will the inspiring in-

soon erect the usual ghastly villas, Roberts, Mr. G. M. Young and Mr.

I have been living, thus lending

their impressive. grandeur stood C. J. Church.

tostimolly to the old adage which Thoroombloms of asserts that 'Heaven Alps those where India's. ornate pile its proud

our. Erl who Alp themselves."

Empire's pillara,

chest I have returned home with but Will doendless stand some zinc-roofed

raised one distressing memory: the ruth-

Social Club; spun and grazed. unlovely pub. There, on the spot whore first I

learned to quaff

His Majesty the King has approved the appointment of the": Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard to be

Legislative Council, vice Mr. P. H. Holyoak, deceased.

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to come under its ban. That, in an Unofficial Member of the less,picking and abandoning of the And where Hongkong's daft silkwörmiş

effect, means an Interference with the normal flow of trade, and, as such, it operates greatly to the in- convenience of much foreign com merce, other than British.

plain fact, of course, is that the whole movement is quite Illegal and

beautiful Alpine wild flowers. Will no doubt rice some crude Nearly every ramble I took I came across huge bunches of flowers

her lofty head,

The old established firm of which somebody had got tired of The burgundy from far Australia's share brokers, Messrs. Vernon and garrying and cast aside. Now, to Smyth, has been closed and Mr. some of us, the Alpine flowers are They'll probably erect a drinking-

shores, The and Mrs. F. R. Smyth left by tha the Alps.

We can't. all climb or even a Co-operative "stores.

trough Taiping yesterday for Now Zea-Welsshorns and Junfraus, and ao Thore, where New Zealand reared land. Mr. F R. Smyth, who is a ye find our pleasure amid the or- tends to settle in New Zealand and thinking, it is as much an act of

dump; to start business there,

vandalism to pluck and throw away.

And whore glowed many a bright- a wild flower as to pull up the May rise a garage and a patrol-pump

hued flower-bed Matterhorn by the roots and hurl And on the Stadium's site, where onco it over one of its own precipices, tattoo or to go out with an oxy-acetylene

And pageant flamed our bransts and apparatus and melt the Rhone I seen a monster cinema to view,

roused cur hearts, Announcing "Ashes of Empire-In glacier..

Three Parts."

contrary to international law, and son of the founder of the, Grm, in-chids, and anemones. To my Likely may stand the suburb's rofuso-

should efforts be made to continue

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hope to see strong measures taken for the return to normal conditions.

The following regulation has been made under the Prisons Ordinance: The Medical Offéer

vention as für

shall take such action and employ P.W.D. Obstruction. The other day we commented in such treatment ús he may consider this column on the slow manner innecessary or expedient for the pre- which the Public Works Depart mitigation, of any

as possible, or epidemic, zent is proceeding with the work endemic, contagious or infectious of putting into usable condition the Des Voeux Road end of Pedder disease in the prison.". Street, and we should now like to

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LAMMERT.-On September 17th, 1926, at No. 7. Tregunter Man sions, Mary Alice Liddell Lammert (nee Aitken), belov voice" another public complaint in ed wife of George Philip Lam-connection with this matter.

good deal of Pedder Street is being re-surfaced and quite a lot of con crete has been used in making the foundation upon which to lay the asphalt surfacing. But why it has been found neçéssary to store over

mfort.

Funeral passes the Monument

at 5 p.m. to-day.

The Telegraph

SATURDAY. SEPT. 18, 1926.

OVERCOMING THE

BOYCOTT.

a dozen barrels of cement on the

pavement under Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's verandah when there is plenty of room to store them in

the un-used street is indeed hard to imagine. With the road out of, commission and with the footpath on that side of the street being the only footpath and thus carrying all the pedestrain traffic, it is little short of scandalous that the P. W. D. should be allowed to make con- gestion and inconvenience all the greater by damping down many large barrels of cement when there

Probate of the will of the late Mr. Eric Munro Ross has been granted in the Supreme Court, The late Mr. Ross was a chartered accountant of Shanghal who died at sen in the 9.9. Morea on January 12, 1926. His estate in Hongkong amounted to $34,400. Among his

eats were the following, to the Shanghai St. Andrew's Society 1000, and to the Scottish Com- pany, Shanghai Volunteers T1000.

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'Iseo the Southern, Railway is

Apropos of the Alpine wild flow- ers, I brought back in my button to bulid a new station between hole one day a simple, unpreten-Furley (Surrey) and Coulsdon. I tious, little bloom, something like have long held the opinion that a pink periwinkle. "What's in this enterprising line badly needed name?" queried the Bard (meaning another station for its traine to Shakespeare, and not Wilkie of stop outside on that ilk.) A lot, I think. A Ger- man lady staying at my hotel val unteered the information that my little flower was called "Basilia- kenkrautaehnliches Seifenraut," This charming little Welsh beauty- which sounds to me exactly like a spot is one of the most unfrequent- German bill of fure. I prefer, the ed resorts Imaginable, as hardly humble English name of soapwort, anyone can pronounce Its" But enough of this loathed mol-sufficiently accurately to ask for ancholy! On with the motley!

the necessary railway ticket,, and consequently visitors are few,.

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STERNE HOLIDAY GUYED. PW LWC HDDRW CHWLL-

name

Passengers who departed by the

I was staying at the same hotel those that do arrive being such as Manila yesterday included:-Mr.Professor Linnaeus Leberwurst, surroundings are typically Welsh. 3.5. Taiping for Australia and

as the world-renowned botanist, have taken the wrong train. The C. F. Mitchell, Mrs.Thomas, Miss of Potztausend, who, owing to his When the mist lifts from the vil- G. L. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred

imperfect knowledge of English, lage (which it never does), the was the victim of a somewhat dis-view, according to the picture Bennett, Mr. S. D. Chant, Miss M. Bennett, Mr. B. Champlin, Mr. and concerting incident on the occa postcards, is very fine; and when Mrs. Robert Sidlow, Mr. and Mrs. sion of a Linaked Ball which some the famous falls of Pwllwchddew- donald, Mrs. A. James, Mr. N. F. V. Smyth, Mr. James S. Mac-of us bright young things or- chwil aré in spate (which they never are), they are alleged to rival Niagara-not in size, but in wetriess,

The Indo-China Steam Naviga- tion Company is doing the right thing by continuing its efforts to evercome the boycott by sending its steamers to Canton. To-mor, plenty of room only a couple of James, Mr. R. James, Dr. and Mrs. yards roadwards. If anybody else James A. Greig, Mr. H. L. Stain- had dared to break the law of foot-field, Mr. W. A. Pearne, Miss L. J. path obstruction in such a manner Bryer, Mr. J. R. Middenway and the police would very promptly have Mr. Charles Geiger. proceeded against them.

row, the s.8. Cheongsing, the second boat to make the trip, will leave, here, and, in view of the spe- cial arrangements which have been made, there should be a-goodly num- ber of pussengers as well siderable quantity of cargo shipped. It is only by pegging away in this manner and showing that British shipping interests are determince to exercise their rights of trade that we can, at the moment, hope to secure a resumption of traffic; and the efforts of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, which has had such a long and honoured con- nection with Far Eastern trade,. are deserving of all praise. It is

Why is

It is notified that the offices of hot the P. W. D. similarly treated?

the Supreme Court will be open It certainly ought to be in the pre- as a consent instance, which is a glaring daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. during case of Indifference and thought the Long Vacation, except on Lessness. There seems to have been. Public and General Holidays, some spare brain waves going about when the offices will be entirely in connection with the "dominoes" closed, and on Saturdays, when which have been designed to mark they will be open from 10a.m. to off the motor parking spaces higher noon, subject, however, to the pro- up the street, and while we are all visions of section 5 of the Supreme in favour of seeing this clear de Court Ordinance, 1898, so far as finition of such places and aise the it relates to the Criminal Sessions. clearly-marked naming of the roads, The Long Vacation commences on we cannot resist the thought that the 20th instant, and terminates if there had been as much thought on the 17th October........... expended on the lower end of the street as there has been on the up-

it will be found that the Chinese will take increasing advantage of the facilities offered them.

to

Memorial services have been per portion, then pedestrians held today for the late Mr. Ho would have been much less endan-Fook at 15 Kennedy Road. Many to be hoped that, as time goes on,gered and annoyed than they have friends and relatives called be

been during the 1st week or so. It tween the hours 8 to moon is to be hoped there will be no fur observe the usual rites according ther cause for complaint.

to Chinese customs on the third week after the interment. No fewer than 700 elegiac scrolls had been received from those who cherished the inspiring memory of the deceased. Among the visitors Rugby, Sept. 16."

present at the service were Sir 172 Souson Chow the Hon. Dr. R. H. 12.10% Kotowall and other prominent .20.37 Chinese of the Colony.

EXCHANGE RATES.

The point has been often stress- ed and it cannot be too frequently repeated, that the boycott is not maintained because of any inherent

Paris unwillingness on the part of the

Brussels Chinese to do business with British Amsterdam

Berlin concerns. The activities of the Copenhagen

Vienna illegal boycott organisation, plys a

Helsingfors fear on the part of merchants of Lisbon

Buenos Aires reprisals if they run, contrary, to

Shanghai the boycott regulations, are. alone Yokohama

Now

York responsible for a continuance of Geneva the movement.. It has recently Stockholm been reported that the Canton Oslo

Prague Government is prepared to see that Madrid the boycott pickets do not interfero Rio with British shipping either in the river or at the wharves, If that is so, it relieves the British naval forces from doing the work. But,

if the Canton Government considers

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British Wireless..

For being in unlawful posses-

The Tai Shun Shipyard, of Lam La, Aplichau-First of $15 per cent.

Chan Ching, trading as the Kwong Cheong. Firm, of Stall. No.: 61, Central Market-First of:$15 per cent.

touriata.

The local peasant-women all-go. about in the well-known fairy god- mother type of costume, while the men wear the traditional garb of their ancient Druid ancestors. The principal industries of the village are snaring Welsh rarobits, re- ganised one night. It was arrang ed to give a prize for the most pairing leeks, and over charging grotesque mask worn, and when the judges had toured the ballroom

Pwllwchddrwchwil has the dis- they unanimously decided to hand tinction of being the only village the prize to the Professor. What in Wales where Mr. Lloyd George was their surprise on calling him didn't go to school; and there is up to receive his award to be still standing the old greystone greeted with an indignant and gut- schoolhouse to which he never teral "Ach! Himmelfahrtstag went. Donnerwetter Gotterdammerung! But I haf no mash on mein face got!"

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So.great has been the success of the London Gardens. Champion- ship, organised by one of the lead

I have just been reading about ing daily newspapers, that I am a Blackpool bride who recently hoping that the idea may be de married a member of a jazz band. veloped along other lines and af groom she carried a bouquetsess gardens a chance to show the Out of compliment to the bride-ford us Londoners who don't pos-

fashioned in the form of a saxo-stuff we're made of. Some enter- phone-a pretty enough conceit, prising journal might suitably but one which should never be al-offer a prize for the most pictures- lowed to become a custom, else que backyard, and in anticipation some fature brides will have to carry queer-looking replicas of the bridegroom's professional imple- ments. For example, a girl mar- rying an undertaker would doubt- loss be required to carry a bouquet phone-shaped like a coffin; the: bride of a pork butcher.a bouquet resembling the carcase of an evis cerated pig: while the lady who had the temerity 'to wed a surgical

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instrument maker might feel seri thereof I have already painted ously embarrassed at having to honeysuckle and humming-birds on bear to the altar a floral model of the surface of my sanitary dustbin. an artificial leg or stomach-pump. I think I shall have the dog's ken- nol thatched, and perhaps add a veranda and a dovecot. Tell me,: The latest idea is to build a new how would it do if I had it dis- suburb upop the site of the Wem-tempered brown, and, with the aid bley Exhibition. That being so of my dear old aspidistra and the Hand me my harp from yonder calico rose I saved from Rose Day,

camouflaged it as a rock garden?

willow-tree;

Colonel Stewart and his wife, At the opening of the Royal Na-, that Eritain has a just cause forsion of a pair of spectacles, sus

well known at Brooklands motor tional Elsteddfod at Swansea the The Tal Yat Lau Teahouse, of track, riding alternatoly a French Cunard Steamship Company, pra- complaint agianist the pickets, hold pected of having been been left in 103, Des Voeux Read-First final motor cycle with a,850 cc. British sonted to the corporation the Red Ing that their activities are con his ricksha by a fare, a ricksha of $19. per cent.

trary to Treaty rights, then the puller was to-day sent to prison The first general meeting of engine, on Monthlery track, Paris, Dragon flag of Wales which was least it can do is to start in and for fourteen days by Major Cereditors of A; Kwai and Co. broke the 24 hours long-distance flown at the masthead of the Willson. It was stated that the otherwise know as Yik Cheong record of 56.85 m.p.h held by Elsteddfod ship Scythic, in which atop the pickets from interfering accused was arrested in a pawn-Hong, is to be held at the Official

shop at Hollywood Road in the het Reculver's, Office at 3 pm on the Italy. They averaged 62.2 m.ph. the Welsh pilgrims from the Uni-

for the 24 hours.

ted States crossed the Atlantic. of pawning the pair of glasses...

in the city, where they are report

ed still to be carrying on their cam

22nd instant,