'BIG 'BLAZE IN MANILA.
CHINESE WOMEN'S NARROW ESCAPE.
"BLANKET ROPE BREAKS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1926.
MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany
Ashley Sterne
As an outcome of the paragraph a jolly-bag inside and out, transfor I wrote last week adyocating that the mixture (to the inside, of Two Chinese women were in- certain reforms were needed in course) and bake in a hot oven-a Jurad in an early morning are that cricket to lighten the fieldamen's cold one's no good to anybody- awept through nine. houses on from the secretary of the Goal-shell of a lightly-boiled egg to labours, I have received a letter until the scum-rison. Then add the Calles San Bernardo and Azcar-keepers Union requesting me to clear the jelly (this makes the raga, in Manila a few days ago, raise my voice in an endeavour to scam slike to the bottom again,) make, things casier for the goal-and continue to bake until the jelly causing Pesos 100,000 damage.
keepers in Soccer matches. This Iacts firm. Then remove' and put The women were Agapita Lay, do with great pleasure. I hover it in a draught to cool; or. If re- 22 years old, living at 750 Calle saw a harder worked man than the quired, for immediate consump San Bernado, and her mother, Mor- Woolwich Arsenic goalkeeper in tion, fan it with a palm-leaf. Tho cin Wong, 45 years old. Both wo- the match against Newcastle Be- men climbed out through a window nighted last winter, when, in spite of their house by means of u rope of his Herculean efforts at defence, made of blankets, but the blankets the latter side scored 347% goals, broke before they could reach the 118 tries, 240 outers, 16 grand sidewalk. The daughter sustain slams, and 85 nursery cannons. ed a broken right leg while her I have therefore written a pretty mother was injured about the head tiff, albeit (I trust), gentlemanly, and body. They were taken to the letter to the Governors, Life-Gov- Philippine General Hospital for ernors, and Governing Governors of the Association, urging that for the future all Soccer matches shall be played with square balls.
treatment.
The fire started at No. 750 Calle San Fernando, a dry goods storo occupied by Ang Meng ing and rapidly spread to Nos. 746, 748, 752, 754 Calles, San Fernando, all dry goods stares, and over to 1636,† 7638, 1640, 1642 and 1044 Calle Azcarraia. used as stores and dwelling gases. Prorapt action by Manila fremen, kept the blaze from, spreading. The buildings were damaged about Tesos 25.000 worth and dingges to contents of the houses was estimated at Peson $5.000.
The origin of the fire is undeter- mined. The buildings are owned by
Manuel Tamtumaling." The majority of the loss sustained by the strekeepers is covered by in-. surance fund it is believed that the buildings are insured.
ELECTRIC VOLTAGE.
TO BE INCREASED IN KOWLOON.
It is notified in the Government Gazette that permission has been given to the China Light & Power Company, (1918) Limited, to in- crease the voltage of their supply from 110 to 200 volts for lighting and from 200 to 350 volts for power upon the following conditione:
(1). The change to be carried into effect without any ex- pense whatsoever to the
consumers.
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New lumps to be supplied, and all fans, motora and heating appliances re-wound free of cost to the consum- ers, and full efficienty after such change to be guaran- teed. (3). All
consumers' existing "wires to be tested for in
sulation resistance, which shall not be less than ten thousand ohms. (10,000 ohms). In the event of the resistance being less than 10,000 ohms, any alterations repairs necessary to bring the resistance above "this quantity to be carried out by the China Light & Power Company (1918) Limited free of cost to the
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If it does nothing else, such a beauty of this recipe is that if you measure would certainly serve to don't like the result as a 'conserve, stop that objectional habit of dribit comes in very handy for mend bling, in which so many footballers
ing. tyre-punctures. seem to indulge so lavishly.
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A meteorologist states that the equinoctial gales to which we har so many allusions at the fall of the year, are a myth Thuy don't
come til December. This being
40:
O, here's a curious paradox; The gales which never blare About th'autumnal equinox Are proved to be hot air!
I am delighted to be able to record that" Mrs. Moldeign Mar- thagh's grouse-shooting party has now been demobilised, amid a positive aurora borealis of glory. Last week Capt. the Hon. Gastley Muckupp, using a triple-barrelled
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SILLY SEASON LOVE LYRICS.
See, love, I send you rhubarb, All aret with carly dew, Grown in Garden Subarb Not very far from Kew, See, Love, I send you spfaunch-" A herb you love full well;
It's come from distant Greenwich, There where the whitebait dwell."
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Do Halibuta make Good Husbands?
Asked in a General Knowledge paper to give the technical term for a disturbing noise sometimes heard when listeningin," a bright young candidate, who presumably possessed an affianced sister, nns- wered "Osculation."
Sir. I think your two correspón-
gun, disposed of all the three dents, the Rev. Charles Haddock grouse which constituted his Sturgeon and Mr. Adam Hardfoe, hostess's preserve. Ir. a momentre confusing the halibut with the of mental aberration caused by burbot and the turbot respectively." intense excitement when the birds The late Professor Huxley long flew over his butt, he discharged ago clearly proved that all male all three barrels simultaneouslyhalibuts were bachelors, with ex- The bang was something terrific. treme, misogyistic opinions, and it The three grouse promptly fell to is therefore still an open question earth (unhis, but suffering from whether or not, if urged into mat- severe shot-shock,) where it was rimony, they would. make better- an easy matter for the gallant halves, or worse-halves. sportsman to deliver the coup-de their repulsive and dissolute ap- grouse, so to speak, by wringing pearance I should say they would. their necks.
From
Yours, with mustard sauce,
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Mrs. Moldleigh Marthagh had Boyle D. Mackerel. hoped to persuade the party to stay on for the pheasant-shooting
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Sir-In pursuit of this question but unfortunately the only pheas- I have recently been studying the ant, she preserves went bad last late Captain Noah's log of the Ark, Tuesday, in spite of the strong and I can find no reference therein preservative employed, and bad to to any marital discord arising be- be given away to the local Cottage [tween the pair of hallbuts" that were doubtless included in the Hospital.
cargo. Had there been any I feel
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Your sympathies, dear friends, sure Captain Noah would have are claimed" on behalf of the poor mentioned it, since he describes shortsighted gentleman who yes- at length an acrimonicus Beene, terday afternoon ate his deaf between the two hyenas on an wife's ear-trumpet in mistake for occasion when the male 'spite his sides laughing and his wife sewed an ice-cream cornet.
them up without first tucking in This has been a record year not the selvedge.Yours
everly, only for Jack Hobbs and Channel-Gurnard Guogeon,,
Sir-1 have devoted many p swimming, but, for blackberries us well, and the jam-and-jelly fae-ious years of my Invaluable life tories, I read, have had more fruit to a consideration of this all-im-. sent in than they can handle. In portant question, and my matur these circumstances, it will per- and unshakable opinion is that the haps be helpful if I gave a receipe only possible answer is either, in for making blackberry-jelly within the negative or the affirmative, the netity of the home-circle. with perhaps a small preponder. Take a nice big blackberry, pare lance of evidence in favour of and core.it, and remove the seeds. Jeither the former or the latter. If there's anything left after that, Yours most decidedly, Barmion The Secretary of the Bock rub it to a pulp in a mortar to- Crumpett F.Z.S. (Bloater-tester to makore Protection Association
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BETTING TAX. ·
BOOKMAKERS STILL
"ON STRIKE." ..
Leeds, Nov. 5.
has announced that despite every-half-a-pound of dripping Butter Sir, I think our two correspon..
thing which has occurred in the south, members intended to ad- here to the resolution, passed liat night, to refrain from betting at the Liverpool and Lincoln meet- ings-Reuter.
BETTING AT NEWBURY.
London, Nov. 5.
At Newbury Races, the protesta-
A RESIGNATION.
JUDGE'S ALLEGED PROFANE LANGUAGE,
PERSONA NON GRATA.
'SOVIET MINISTER BARRED :
Washington, Nov. 5.
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