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THE NEW REGIMENT.

COLONEL COMYN'S FINE CAREER.

Since It was first notifled that

the 2nd. Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers were,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MIXED GRILL

A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne

Very absorbing indeed have I | sorbing question; Do Halibuts

Make Good Husbands?"

coming to Hongkong, there has found the experiences. of those been a change in the command of people who, in one of our promin- the Battalion, the present Coment dailies, have been telling us manding Officer being Lieut. Col. all about their pre-existences on L. J. Comyn, C.M.G., D.SO, " this earth. One man, claims to Colonel Comyn, who la a son of have been re-in-carnated four the late Mr. Andrew Nugent times, but on nach pecaslon as a Comyn, of Ballinderry, Co. Gall Hüman being. Old Professor way, Ireland, was educated at Barmion Crumpett, however, "con Clongowes Wood College and go one better than this, for in the Dublin University. He joined the currant number of Science Bur- Connaught Rangers in 1899blings he claims to have been re- became Lieutenant in 1900, Cap-born, four tinies In different stages tain in 1906, Major in 1915, and of evolution. He distinctly re- Bt. Lieut. Col. In 1917.

He was members, he states, first existing as a tomato in the Garden of Eden. At his second time, on earth he featured as one of the two giraffes. which Noah took into the Ark He vivillly recalls the disembarkation. on Mount Arafat, because he trip- October of 1917. For his servicesped over the porcupines and bump- in the war, he was mentioned ined his forehead against the glacier. despatches four times, given the Hts third appearaneo, some thou D.S.O. and also honoured with the sands of years inter, was as a ba C.M.G. decoration. He was boon. He was captured in a Congo married in 1914 to Miss Mary forest while still a baboon-in-arms. Esther de Courcey Duff, of Rivers brought to England and sub- dale, Co. Dublin, and there is one sequently exhibited as the Missing son and one daughter.

Link in a travelling menagerie.. He died, for the third time, from indigestion brought on by eating.

D. A. A. G. of the 14th Division from September, 1914, to October, 1915, and A. A. and" Q. M. G. of the 86th (Ulster) Division from the latter year until 1917. being

also A. A. G. the War Office in

When the Battalion came ashore yesterday afternoon,, Colonel Comyn inspected the Guard of Honour from the Scottish Com- pany of the Volunteer Defence Corps, and, after passing through the ranks of the detachment, said that his Regiment felt, very highly honoured in that the Scottish Com- pany of the Hungkong Volunteers had turned out to welcome them to the Colony. They realized that the detachment were all busy men and that they had been waiting a long time for the ship to arrive in port. That, of course, was to be regretted. He, personally, felt sorry to have kupt them so long. but it could not be helped, He assured them that the Regiment regarded it as a great honour, and he hoped it was but the beginning of much intercourse between the Regiment and the Scottish Com-

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an umbrella which he had snatched from the hands of a too inquisitive

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BILLY SEASON LOVE LYRICS. Have you forgotton the day we

first met, love?

(Let me see where, was it? Ah,.

at Herno Bay!) "Twas raining in torrents, and you

were all wet, love;

You stayed with damp clothes.on

the rest of the day.

Have you forgotten the dawn of our

love, love?

It happened one day as we bathed

fn the brine:

I playfully splashed your you gave

moya shovo, loves

And by that same token I know

you were mine!

Have you forgotten that brief.

blisafni week, love

When we reclined every day on

the strand?

I would drop seaweed upon your

fair chock,, love,

And down my neck you'd cram

handfuls of aanil.

Have you forgotten the last sad

Adieu, love,

When you went off by the ten-

thirty-soyen

How we declared that, we'd 'over

bin true love?

Have you forgotten? Well, I have,

thank Heaven!

DISTINGUISHED INVALIDS.

The Duchess of Lower Edmon- ton is confined to her room with "a chill, thought to have been con- tracted while walking too neay, an ice-cream barrow..

No improvemont has taken place in the condition of the wealthy nonagenarian peer, Lord Dychards. His heir, the Hon. Spendford Thrylte, saya the old gentleman is still hale and hearty

Lord Caudle passed a troubled and restless night, Lady Caudle unexpectedly arrived home from Deauville yesterday afternoon.

Ill-natured rivals in the scientific world have been heard to say that they don't see much difference be tween the Professors third reinford is. now convalescent after her carnation and his fourth,

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A reader asks me If I can tell pany of the Hongkong Volunteers.him what are the Seven Wonders Captain Logan briefly replied, of the World. I am happy to say saying that his Company had come he has come to the right man. to welcome the King's Own Scot tish Borderers to Hongkong, and they one and all highly appréciat ed Colonel Comyn's sentiments. He, too, hoped that the two units would see much of each other in the future.

The first is the fortitude with which we bear. the income tax. The other six are Mixed Grill.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Should Plumbers Perspire?

Sír,-As I have never yet had the pleasure of seeing a plumber, HISTORY OF THE SHIP. though I have sent many un ur

INTERESTING PAPER HEAD.

The Hon. Mrs. Uggleigh-Mug-

prolonged bouts of paddler's ankle which she contracted while ut- tempting to bathe during low-tide at Southend,

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Mr. Soakley Binger, who was seized with a severe attack of hiccups shortly before closing- time last night, was later reported by the Bow Street Police surgeon to have made" a partial recovery.

Lacy Bluebottle is reported to. be slightly better, but as nobody seems to know she is ill it dosen't matter very much.

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It's come at last, this wireless television business, and I see it is announced that the Post Office is now prepared to issue licences for the installation of the necessary equipment.. Of course, at the out- set, only certain pre-arranged

eut summons for one In the course of my life, I must absolutely de cline to express any opinion what soever as to whether he is a fit and In line with its policy of secur-proper person to be entrusted with ing authoritative discourses on the priceless privilege of perspir subjects of general interest, the ing. Yours with brass, taps, An-"features" will be broadcast, but Institution of Engineers and Ship- asthesius Bilgewater, D. Sc. (Lon., my foar is for the future rather builders of Hongkong opened its Edin, Oxon, and Dub.

than for the feature. Sooner or winter season last evening, when a

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matic televisiscopes, or whatever

most interesting paper was read Geehrter Herr, Ja. Warum der later somebody will invent auto- by Mr. J. S. Gillingham, M..N.A., Teufel nicht? Hochachtungsvoll. M.B.E., a member of the Royal Linnaeus Leberworst (Schinkel-they're called, on the same princi Corps of Naval Constructors, on brad).

"The Ship." Mr. J. Ormiston, the Sir. As an aid to indigestion I President of the Institution, was know of nothing better than the act in the chair, and there was of perspiring, and plumbers would gratifyingly large attendance, in-benefit in health if, after their cluding a number of ladies.

dinner (which in England I under- The paper was of most interest stand, lasts from. 12 to 5,) they ing and informative character, were to perspire freely hat quietly being in the nature of a review of for a couple of hours instead of the development of the ship. from the earliest times up to the present. rushing back to work with that frenzied zeal which is so charac- All aspects of the question were teristic of members of the plumb- fully and ably dealt with."

In concluding his remarks, Mr.ing profession. Yours eupeptical- Gillingham, said that whatever may Bulkley Stodger M. D. (Yell

University, Connectichusetts.), happen in the future as regards the evolution of other methods of

Disreputable Sir,-As Father of transport, it is difficult to conceive the plumstead Plumber's Chapel I

any work of man which will render vehemently deprecate any discus-

the ship no longer necessary. We sion on the question you have

most in-judiciously elected to raise. England is a free country (within licensed hours), and the individual liberty of action for which our forefathers go heroically lenked

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ple as the automatic telephone, and possession of these intruments will be able to televisualise any blessed thing they want to-and then leaven help the sailors! Hub- by will ring up from the office to ay he's awfully sorry he won't be. in to dinner, but he'd quite forgot- ten it was quarterly night, stock-taking, or any other familiar old yarn, and he won't be home. till morning. About eleven" p.m. his suspicious spouse will tele- visualise the office and acc closed; after which she will ob- viously get on to all the dance- clubs in quick succession until she

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of this generation have been born in an age when every sea is chart ed, when full and accurate know ledge of our world is obtainable at our own fireside, when after the long years of travail there is and sometimes burst is as much genuine desire for peace and amity. the birthright of the plumber no amongst the civilized Nations: of any other member of the pro- but let it not be forgotten in all letariat. In the circumstances, I finally rúna hubby to earth wrest our musinge and in all our self-see no alternative but to declare ling with the quarterly balance in congratulations; that all these this correspondence now closed.- benefits and advantages have been Yours, with putty, Gasket Tum-ton, assisted by his peroxide-head- rendered possible by the develop bletank." ment of that wonderful product

of the human brain, the ship, which

Never mind! Another splendid

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has carried such dauntless explor-discussion "nezt-week on the ab-

ers as Da Gama, Magellan, Colom-

bus, Cabot and Drake on their great ventures.

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the form of an elaborate Charles-

ed, googoo-eyed typist.ge

Yes, I see the televisiscope smashing up far more happy homes than ever a hostile plumber did.

The Court Martial's Rentence of The Archduke Felix, son of Em- six months imprisonment On press Zita and the late Emperor Guardeman Francis Mostyn, 1st Charles, who has been suffering Irish Guards, for chasing a ser-from-a lesion of the stomach, un- geant-major with a rifle and bayo-derwent an operation. The Arch- net, was announced at Aldershot, duke is with his mother at Bilbao.

It is notified that the Wing Kee & Co. having lodged a statement of particulars pursuant to Section 8 of the Chinese Partnership Or dinance, 1911, have been register- At Yokohama Wharf an explo- It is reported from Sydney that ed as a Chinese partnership with sion took place on board the tan- Mr. J. J., Garvan, chairman of the the following registered partners:ker Koyo Maru. Four men were board of governors of the Com -Wong: Kwong-tin and Leung killed, 17 seriously injured, and monwealth Bank of Australia, has

resigned. Kam-kong.

six were missing.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1926.

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A RIVAL TO DOMREMYÝ.

the inhabitants of those regions are always ready to believe in the supernatural. A village has just been reported in which there is a sorceress with a great reputation The village of Domremy has for curing diseases of the liver. once more been celebrating the Her raethod of diagnosis is at least birth of Joan of Arc, but was she ingenious. The patient takes off really born there at all? She cer- his shoes and socks and lies on his tainly belonged to one or other back.. It is pointed out to him of the villages in that little dis that as he looks at his toes one trict of the Vosges, but to which? is, higher than the other, which is The inhabitants of Greux, a com-proof of disease. After a day's mune a few miles away from Dom-massage he is persuaded that they remy, claim her, and they quote a are of the same height, which is parish register in support of their proof of cure! A Spanish fortune- claim, as well as royal decree, teller who descended upon Biar- which exempted Greux from the ritz to take advantage of the local taille and other taxes in considera-gullibility was less successful, but tion of the honour of having given then he was a mere man. He ask birth to the national heroine. Domremy had no parish priest un-ed a lady to whisper her age, and til the seventeenth century. Dom- gallantly replied, "Well, you cer- romy even admits that Joan was tainly do not look it," which the probably baptised at Greux; but in view of the recent erection of husband resented as a familiarity. an expensive statue in her honour, Next day he corrected his formula he expected that to "You certainly look it," and the it can hardly

husband knocked him down. He Domrey will give her up.

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