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MERINO" VESTS and PANTS are just- a nice weight for the cool season.

WOOL and COTTON a large portion is

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VESTS $5.75 or 3 for $ 16.00

PANTS (knee length) $ 6.00

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926.

Anne. Similarly, the Naval Ro- serve scheme would undubtedly have its valug In times of empr- geney, but is it worth while Just now to embark on a project which may mean on outlay of anything up

to lakh of dollars a year? On the question of big pubile works, the Government speaks of

QUALITY & DURABILITY continuing, end, as far as possible,

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a lofter the stamp of quality.

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ONE 6

Our Coupon system will out your Ribbon Exponses by one third.

completing those to which the Colony is at present, committed, but we cannot see much evidence that that is really to be the enge. To take the question of the new

That fane

CHILIA

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DAY BY DAY.

'1 AM" ALWAYS AFRAID OFLA FOOL,

ONE CANNOT BE SURE THAT HE IS NOT A KNAVE AS WELL-Hazlitt.

- The Colony had a clean bill of health on Thursday, one o

It is officially stated that Sir State visit to Bangkok for four Laurence Guillemard is paying á days commencing Detember 28th.

by Hongkong against arrivals from Quarantine restrictions imposed Taingtao on account of cholers have been removed.

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SERVANTS IN HONGKONG.

Some Tricks of the Trade.

aro Important factors in Typewriter Ribbons. Firms are often judged by the 71.F1

of their letters and where Kamiloo Ribbous Gro need the clenbut imprison, as an arumple, it is merely

The name of Mr. H. R. Forsyth, pressions are such that give stated that the Government la un C.A., has been added to the list of able to prpered with it. The rea- those qualified as auditors under son le not given, helther is it the Companies Ordinances. stated whether the project is After several days' delay, the merely postponed or abandoned. a.a. Borneo arrived last night Hougay. She met with very As a consequence of this decision, from votes on the trip up from a sum of $56,000 1s to be spent the Indo-Chinese port, which she

thrown away might be the better left last Sunday. term) on patching up Victoria

Last night the Italian Opera Gaol, whilst a good sum is requir- Company gave a finé performance ed for rented quarters for mar- of the old favourite, "Rigoletto," in ried warders. This we consider which the principals did extremely false economy, especially gooing well. Tonight, the Theatre Royal that a quarter of a million dollar season will end with "Carmen," and chair coolies, and two gardeners,yond.

a big house is anticipated.

Plions 1:86 or write for particulers,

Mustard & Co., Ltd.

Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances Hongkong. Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central,

The Telegraph

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1926.

THE BUDGET.

The Budget speech delivered in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon by the Hon. Colonial Secretary will, we imagine, meet with a somewhat mixed reception. So far as the financial position is concerned, the outstanding fact is that a series of adverse factors has had the effect of reducing the Colony's surplus almost to the vanishing point, and that it has been found necessary to resort to a polley of borrowing. There is, happily, not the least need for alarm on this account, for we have sufficicat faith in the future of

Hongkong to believe that there are far brighter days ahead. The

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The word pidgin is used between with life as it is, and not with the foreigners and Chinese to denote ethics of it, so I must be honest work, and the favourite sentence and admit, that, after a late night in which it appears is simple, or a dose of fever, I am in no no b'long my pidgin." I often for an obviously direct, final, and absolute That mood to deal out lumps of sugar discontented Imagine that it was one of the household, first communications made to the There is only one aclution. If those early days, and that his en blessed with congenial Bervants, foreigners by the major domo of you have the good fortune to be swer was equally simple, direct, and do not care to shut your eyes and desirableVery good to much robbery, you can fix the catches some man can

monthly sum of cleaning mate- The prospective candidate was rials, and refuse more. If your waiting in the back premises; he servants are reasonable, they will was, of course, son, brother, cousin agree with a good grace; if they de relative of the No. 1 boy; and are not so, in time, the whole family beard the house will be dirty, answer will always bo came accommodated-on the pat-the same "I no got Brasso. riarchal system. In those far-

East is East, and West is West, off days, a few more dollars were and never the twain shall meet; added to the monthly total, and but should they do so on equal and what merchant prince could be confidential grounds, Europe would worried with such details? JAMPA learn more things of the running.

Alas for the future! By Febru- of a Trades Union than are dreamt ary, 1922 to obtain a peaceful ex-of in her philosophy. istence and an efficiently-run ese is described as inscrutable, im- The Chin-

house, it was necessary to keep movable, unemotional These are.. nine indoor servants and big out-alincies. But he can keep a secret side; this last consisting of four unto the jaws of death--and be the total wages being roughly one of late years our domestic. have already been spent on site

hundred and seventy dollars a troubles have led us to discuss preparation at Ngau Sha Wan tember show that the average mean this establishment you could bear A much-desired reform is one The Observatory returns for Sep-month for fifteen servants. With means of alleviation and deferice. Then with regard to the Shing temperature was 81.5, the highest the exhaustion of the climate for compelling the registration of ser- Mun Valley scheme, does the Gov-recorded being 91.5 and the lowest perhaps three consecutive sum vanta on the simplest of lines. ernment policy mean that the idea shine and 17.30 inches of rain overtaking you-provided,

There were 214 hours of mers, without danger of madness The present method of admitting of bringing water across the har. The average humidity was 80 and course, that you were well versed one's house is to get the No. I boy of these ten to fifteen strangers into bour has been abandoned? If so, the lowest barometer reading 29.34. in all the tricks, and used the tact of a friend, or an institution, to we consider that the millions

of the diplomat in seeing and not gather his surplus clan on your The use of Lysol as a means of seeing. which will have been spent by the committing suicide has figured in

behalf. They often bring letters To the Chinese boy the next of recommendation, written and end of 1928 will have been very several cases reported to the local word of importance after pidgin signed on stamped paper by some argely wasted. A definite pro-police. From Yaumati yesterday is squeeze, and whereas the former well-known resident, and probably nouncement on this point would me the report that a woman refers to work, the latter he couched in glowing terms; for at 283, Temple Street drank a should properly regard as a pro- there are some very excellent ser- be welcomed. Nothing whatever quantity of the disinfectant, after fituble relaxation or sport. It is vents here in Hongkong. The is said in the speech regarding a domestic quarrel. She is now the national game of China; and note states that Kwong Cheung the port development scheme. Has lying in a serious condition at the it is played with avidity from the was a washerman or woman, cooke,

Wong, Wah Hospital.

borders of Siberia to the southern coolie, or boy for five years with this also lapsed? The re-absorp

limits of Cathay. No sum in too the signatory. You are naturally tion of the department entrusted Three cases of Chinese being small for discussion; and vast disappointed to learn that "Missy with this work by the P. W. D. attacked and bitten by dogs dur armies fight continuously for the ne stop this side any more, just looks like a retrograde step, and, ing the past twenty-four hours are big prizes.

given in police reports issued this incidentally, the opinions express morning. In all instances, the ed thereon dre' in direct conflict animals concerned were

The Victims were with the views of Sir Edward chow dogs.

given treatment at the Government Stubbs.

Civil Hospital, while the dogs were On the general question of pub-removed to Kennedy Town for ob- lic works, we would rather sed servation.

these pushed forward by loan than

78.7.

ľ

black

now" and that therefore, you can-

After breakfast comes an em- not verify. You ask a few ques- barrassed cook, dragging his feet tions"Yes, yes, missy have got over the polished boards and small-red hair, two children, etc." You ing nervously-always apprehen- decide to take her or him, and the sive of being found out. He bears chances are even, that you have. a book purporting to be an exact got a very good servant. He or list of the commodities used the she, then proceeds to pay a large.. previous day, Twenty-seven part of the first month's salary to eggs? You await an explana- the genuine owner of the testi tion; and it comes in a stream of monial and of the necessary de-. leta, cakes, sweets, souffles! Have

loan policy has much to corimendif held up whilst trained staffs, left by the s.s.. Changte were almost unintelligible words-ome-tails.

it, and it might with advantage have been adopted long ere this.

It

ment.

4:

An examination

Custom dies hard. It is usual always ahead of the game. On alto compliment the French woman tray he shows you a tin of Brasso above those of other nations, for and a dozen boxes of matches; her chic; and likewise to tell the there seems to be an extra twinkle tale of a Chinese servant, that, if in his eye this morning; but the he is bad, he will thieve,, when he

Amongst the passengers who whom it is unwise to disperse, are Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Nelson, Mr. &

Ten years ago domestic service waiting for future expansion. As Mrs. N. R. M. Shaw, Mr. H., B. you been running a restaurant was a comparatively highly paid

Dickson, Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Guttano, to other aspects of the Budget, Mr. H. W. Blancke, Mr. G. Andries, content with adding ten per cent the strikes of 1922 and 1925, the unawares? So it continues. Not and honourable profession. Since is chiefly necessitated by

we do not quite approve the new Miss M. E. Cochrane, Mr. & Mrs.to the price of every article he type of man and woman who re- embarking on schemes of big pub-

water charges or the increased P. H. Adams, Mr. R. Brock, Miss buys for you, he makes twice that garded it as such has disappear- He "works, which are quite neces-

hospital rates, but these are J. Harbison, Miss E. Chupman, sary to the development of the matters on which for the moment Mr. W. Poosner, Mr, Walter Mum by deducting ten per cent of ed, giving place to opportunists the article itself, so that, no mat- who are mostly unsatisfactory and Colony, but for which the present we must withold extended com- Sharp, Miss E. M. Bridge and Miss or how you pay your bills, he is

Pike, Mr. W. C. Evans, Miss M. R.ter in what shop you take refuge, frequently dishonest. generation should not be expected

I. A. Twell. to pay in full. Any proposals for heavy taxation'would therefore have been most fl-timed, and we are glad that the Government has avoided any marked recourse to such a step. At present, there ap pears to be a measure of timidity on the part of the Government in initiating loans, but we see no rea- son why that policy should not be more widely resorted to in view of the certain revival of the Colony's fortunes in the days to

final examination

for of

the per-

song who have been bound

A Sincere Gesture.

There is a ring of deep sincerity in the remarks which His Excel lency the Governor delivered at tive Council in relation to Canton tise as solicitors in the Supreme velly good friend" from the next that my house-keeping money was yesterday's meeting of the Legisic such persons for admission to prac-crease. In the kitchen waits his and whispered a mystic warning, and its anti-Hongkong attitude, and we feel sure that the people Court of Hongkong, is to held on house; and he also has been paid unsafe without a better lock. In and Government of Canton will and Wednesday the 17th November a trice, one of the two tihs of Brus gave me a new key. Ten days Monday the 15th, Tuesday the 16th for Brasse and for matches. In due time a locksmith appeared and fully recognise that sincerity, Hongkong and Canton are not At the annual meeting of the and half filled from the new one. retrospect it is easily seen, that so is opened, an old tin is produced later the money disappeared. In rivals, but are complementary to Ponang St. Andrew's Society, Dr. Both houses are thus supplied; two keys can be made from the each other, and we here will be Sharp, who presided, said that the and, used with care, half a tin same pattern, but niced not neces among the first to pledge our full Society was in a prosperous condi-will last the requisite number of sarily be carried by the game per- support in all that makes for the tion. They had now a total mem- beneficial development of the neigh-bership of 162, an increase of 44 days, in each case.

son: When the police arrived to bouring provinces. Words such as compared with the previous year,

Looking carefully at the private take him away, their first remark of borrowing being overdone is the these from a man like Sir Cecil while their finances were in a re-accounts of these cooks, you will enlightened me sadly "Oh! It's

Clementi ought, ordinarily, to steady increase, year by your, in provoke friendly overtures spectable position. Mr. B. C. see, on the credit side, they can you again, is it?" It was. Again Thompson was elected President divide the ten per cent increased and again, but always able to get Government excite confidence, but one realises for the ensuing year. It was left charge on each tin already, paid employment, having ceased to be

that to-day it is a question as to of Canton have allowed themse

by articles of clerkship for reason is not for you to guess considers it necessary or desirable, a period of five years as provided in Pay your money, close the book, from others, but that at all times in order to ascertain the fitness of twinkle in the eye of the cock in- the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, and return to your affaire. The his master's goods are sacred.

Alas, alas, he came to me privily,

como."

What we are far more con- cerned about than the possibility

the actual cost

COMFORT

al pmolumenta alone. Some of

or 3 for $ 16.50

SIZES 84" to 46" Chest, in Stock

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS

how far the inhabitants and officials.

to be blinded by the prejudiced preaching of Bolshevist agents, whose one delight seems to be the

to the incoming committee to ar- range the celebrations for St. An-

drew's Day.

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The present Budget is a striking

and also have in hand one tin of a guest of the King, on account of example of this tendency, for there

Brasso, readily convertible into his excellent English, greying hard cash at the shop of their hair, and charming manners! is scarcely a Department in which

grocer friend. From a rough I do not say that registration new posts have not been created.

Seven men and a woman were count of the household commodi would lighten all our darkness, but charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell ties and certain foods, some idea the payment of a yearly fee, auf- Indeed, an increase over the pre-condemnation of all and everything at the Contral Magistracy yester of the scope of this charming game ficient to cover the cost of keep- sent year of nearly four lakhs of British. Tearing aside that vel of day afternoon in connection with can be realised. A store cup-ing a photographed account of dollars is budgéfted for in person destructive make-believe, Sir Cecil the management of a Popui board helps, but the house soon each servant and to allow certain showed how the aims and ideals of lottery gambling house. One of becomes overrun with rats, mice, notes to be kept of employers, this expenditure may be desirable remarkably parallel and how there.

the Chinese and the British run so the defendants who had a previous flying and creeping cockroaches, would stop many decelts which are

conviction ****for a

similar of and the many kinds of ants found now being practised. and necessary, but we doubt the is nothing but good to be gained force, having been fined $200, in these Intitudes. I am dealing wisdom at the present moment of on both sides by clase and friendly was yesterday ordered to pay a fine contact. He made an eloquent ples of $800, while a second man who such wholesale reforms na arc

for by-gones to be treated as by had previously been fined $100 was proposed in one or two instances.gones, for a resumption of the

fined $200. Four others, including Under ideal conditions, the new normal and traditional relations of the woman, wore fined $100 each poate in the clerical departments, amity and for a common teach for while the remaining two were dia- ward to a happier future; and it is the Harbour Department, the Trea- difficult to think that that plon will

charged. Bury the Audit Offico and the Oficial fall on anything but responsive Roceiver's Office might be prudent, cars. When our Governor tells

FRENCH REVENUES.

TISTHENES.

DIRIGIBLE FLIGHT.

BIG EXCESS SHOWN OVER LAST YEAR.

Parla, Oct. 15.

AN OVERLAND TRIP FROM LAKEHURST TO DETROIT.

Detroit, Oct. 15,

The revenue returns for Septem The Los Angeles has arrived.- Canton that we wish to be very often been pointed out, Canton and her totalled 3,132 millions of Router's American Service. but surely in times like the pre- close friends as well as very close the provinces over which it is francs, an excess of 1,267 millions sont these additions might be held neighbours, it in a simple statement exercising control, lose heavily by a compared with September, 1925; over. The point is that all those of the truth and one which, it is policy of cutting off Hongkong and the first nine months was Brondesbury High School girla fncreases mean more expenditure to be hoped, will find an coho in the from their free and unrestricted 25,295, millions, an excess of 6,801 have raised $100 to help a school

hearts of the more responsible use, and His Excellency's Invitation and very little, of any, more realemonts in Canton.

As ha so ought to be very eagerly accepted. millions compared with the same fellow to take up a scholarship at

period last-year-Havas.

Oxford.