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TELEPONE C. 4567.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

9,

1927.

DAY BY DAY. -

LIFE IS CONSTANTLY WEIGHING US JN VERY SENSITIVE SCALES AND TELLA ING EVERY ONE OF US PRECISELY

WHAT HIS REAL WEIGHT IS TO THE LAST CRAIN OF DUST.-Lowell,

Yesterday's health return showe one Chinese case of typhoid fover.

Ludy Clementi is to distribute

the prizes at the Italian Convent School at 5.30 p.m. to-morrow.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE NANYANG BROTHERS TOBACCO CO., LTD.

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]

The Very Idea!

A little boy, a Jow, atood in the middle of the road and cried as If his heart would break. A large crowd gathered round the mournful walf and endeavoured to learn the cause of his woo.

PROTECT YOUR CAR Christianity, why is it more incum- by installing 31 bent upon him than on a Conserva. "PYRENE" Tirotive, to go and sell all that he has Extinguisher.

and give it to the poor?! "PYRENE" will The answer to that has been sup. kill fire without plied among others by Mr. F. N. damage to the

Blundell, a Conservative M.P., who engine, woodwork or upholstery, argues that rich members of the Water spreads a community, instead of being with patrol fire; sand is the Labour Party, would be mare

Sir, We have been requested

When the crowd had reached an by our clients the Nanyang almost uncontrollable number the inefficient and will usefully employed in working with

Brothers Tobacco Co., Ltd., to boy took his hands from his eyes. put the engine out these who are trying to bring about

make the following statement on "What's the matter, sonny 1" their behalf in view of the various asked a member of the crowd.. an improvement in the status of "PYRENE" Ex their fellow-countrymen by pro-were amongst the passengers who that have during the last few days Jacobstein's

Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Henderson been circulated and the reports somebody take

conflicting rumours which have

"Boo-hoo," cried the lad, von't tinguisher is amall

me to Izzy in size, light inviding greater facilities for acquir left for Manila by the s.s. Presid-appeared in the local Fress in re- There is a big sale-mon's suits, clothing stores? weight and easy to ing the ownership of land and

ference to their decision to close overcoats, and tles. Everything handio.

down their factories in this Colony at reasonable prices." houses, by profit-sharing and co- The Empresa of Scotland is due for the time being. "PYRENE" docs partnership and by peace and co-here to-morrow on a round-the- not deteriorate and operation in industry. He asserts world tour from Manila, She has is always ready that the Labour Party is wedded to

a large number of wealthy tourists on board. theories, which would destroy the status of those who now possess it without giving any better position

of action.

for 180.

:

Keep a "PYR- ENE" handy on car and in garage.

Mustard & Co., Ltd.

Incorporated under the Companie Ordinances Hongkong, Alexandra Building Dos Voeux Road Central,

DEATH.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1927

RICHES & SOCIALISM.

Arising out of the recent election

ent McKinley.

clearly understood that their de

The Company desire it to be cision has in no way any relation to the political situation and that nelther the Head Ofco in Shang- At the Marine Court this morn-hal nor the local Board of ing, the master of a trading junk Directors have been in touch of was fined $10 for allowing his approached by any political party to those who do not; that it superuft to be under way without ex-

or organisation.. ports the efforts of those who be-hibiting regulation lights.

The Company, secondly, desizo lieve that industrial war will give

It to be known that there has not better results to the community Tobacco Manufactory writes us to and their workmen whether of the The manager of the Orient beer any trouble or diffenity in the relations between themselves than industrial pence, and that by rectify the statement that the Nan-skilled or unskilled class nor with some unexplained means the desang Brothers Tobacco Co. are the any of the administrative staff. truction of wealth will provide ever products.

only local manufacturers of tobacco The suggestion, therefore, that the more wealth to divide among the destroyers. And the Labour

The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. George William Party's case has been put by Mr. Sinclair, master marines, residing Oswald Mosley in these words: at No. 621 Nathan Road, Kowloon, "Socialism is a political creed to Miss Chan Lai Keng, of the which produces. constructive and

same address.

scientific propesals for the pro-

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The

threat of a strike on the one band or a lock-out on the other has in any way conduced to the closing of the works in entirely unfounded and on the date of the closing of their works the Company and their employees were on the best of turms.

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Great Caesar drove his ample

rouda

Through. England's spinal

"marrow,

Since when our, Anglo-Saxon

modes

Made sinuous tracks and

narrow;

Anon the snorting from herse Demanded wider tracks,

And tree and hedge that

barred its course

Have felt the fatal axe. Here woodmen blaze the grey-

green bole

Of many a massy beech, While fern and moss and

rabbit hole

Fall from the widening

breach:;

Where lute the bryony

chaplets twined

Lie iron network dumps. The congrela highway shall

be lined

With yellow petrol pumps.

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JUPF-On the 2nd instant, at Christ Church, Oxford, of pneumonia, Arthur Denys,

The free schools minintained by dearly loved younger son of

An American engineer has been the Company in this Colony for Mr. and Mrs. John A, Japp, of | 4ronaive remeily of the most mortal engaged from New York for the the benefit of the children of their Chislehurs, Kent, and late of of social diseases-unmely, poverty bour, the Whampoa Port Develop the workmen who were housed in construction of Whampoa Har-employees are being continued and longkong, aged 24,4;

If we seek an analogy to the posi- ment Company announces.

the Company's dwellings have efforts to catch up, constantly. Time flies, and men in their tion of Socialists, it appears that Canton Ministry of Finance will been allowed to remain. we can rather be compared to doc-wards the expenditure.

must be on the watch for new We are asked, however, to state devices. In Cleveland, the tele- contribute $100,000 monthly to-

that the main reasons for the phone operators had been repeat- tors who seek a remedy for a cer

decision to close down the works ing the number after the person Lain disenge. It is not snál to in-Japanese walker, has arrived in haul and where necessary a re

Mr. Abe Akimitsu, the famous desire to effect a complete over- tion has been dropped, resulting in temporarily are, primarily, the calling had given it. This repoti sist that a doctor should himself Canton from Hongkong on foot, placement of the factory machinery a saving of one to three seconds suffer from the discase which he The Japanese pedestrian followed and equipment and at the same seeks to cure before we admit the Canton-Kowloon "Railway line time to reorganise the administra-the exchange. When you figure on every call that comes through either his competence or his in- of approximately ninety miles in recently added to the factory and day are 930,000, you begin to pretty closely, covering the distance tion. New premises, have been that Cleveland's average calls per cerity. Men of mcans in the exactly 20 hours, says the Canton warehouse accommodation, Labour Party are neither incom Gazette,

realize how important a thing the Certain questions are outstand-second is. petent nor insincere when they seek

ing with the Revenue authorities of Mr. Oswald Mosley as Member to discover a cure for the poverty states that Wong Kam-yaan, the tobacco duties should be assessed plead guilty? Defendant: More A Chinese report from Canton in regard to the basis on which Clerk at Wealdstone: Do you of Parliament there has been much of others." And there have been Hongkong butcher who became and which arise principally from or less. The clerk: You had better controversy at Home on the ques-columns and columns of similar ar. chief of the Strike Picket Corps in the Company's peculiar position as make it "less," and plead not tion of whether men of means can, guments. Of course, the issue can career, as yesterday he was ap- in the Colony and not as importers Canton, has entered on an official manufacturers of cigarettes with-

guilty. consistently, belong to the Labour only be devited by one's own per-pointed by the Ministry of Finance of cigarettes. The Company will Party and, at the same time, retain seal opinion.

Chief of the Anti-Opium avail themselves of the temporary trate: There has to be a lot of

Mr. Scanlan, Lambeth magis-.. their private fortunes. Is it not

Bureau in Wuchow.

suspension of their manufacturing activities in this Colony to discuss give and take in this world be inconsistent with their political be-

A Musicale will be held at The the Hongkong Government.

these questions thoroughly with tween married people. A Hearty Welcome. liefs that they should remain

Helena May Institute on Thurday wealthy? Such is the nature of foren of men who have been des

With the arrival here" of large 17th February at 5.30 p.m. Tic-

The greatest gift we can make kets including Tea 50 cts. to state that any report hitherto to our country is that of porsonal the question discussed and it has talled for service in the East, cach, must be booked at the Secret-purporting to be made on behalf service-Mrs. Baldwin. given rise to some heated expres. quent on the unsettled state of ary's Office before noon on the unauthorised and that this is the generally the most enthusiastic

of the Company has been wholly

I think the worst ericketer Js sions of opinion, particularly be-fairs in China, Hongkong is Ipcm 17th inst. Items will be given by only official statement, issued by player.-Sir ing in greater prominence is a Mrs. R. Sanger, Mrs. S. S. Perry the Company.

Rowland Blades tween the extreme sections of the naval and military station, A. and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes faithfully.

We are Yours,(Lord Mayor of London.). Conservative and Labour parties, ready, with the regular Garrison, Smith-Adri

There is not great reason to and those who do not belong to

there are other Battalions of

Geo. K. Hall Bruton & Co. fear that the growth of the trust British troops here, with many

Solicitors for the Nanyang either party have been able. In the

Charged formally, before Mr.

movement will lead to any general Brothers Tobacco Co. Ltd. increase in prices. Mr. Philip more to follow, whilst the naval R. E. Lindsell at the Central words of an impartial observer; "to forces have also heen very consider-Magistracy this morning, the two

Hongkong, February 8, 1927. Snowden. derive some amusement from the ably augmented. At the moment, remaining Sunning piracy sus controversy raging over the ethical various units will remain with poned until their discharge from it is not clear how long these pects, whose case had to be post- position of rich men in the Labour

us, but, be their stay brief or ex-hospital, were remanded until to party." The biblical word picture, tendel, the Colony will give these morrow, when Mr. T. I, King, the that it is easier for a camel to pass past, the happicet of relations have will proceed with the case.

men a cordial welcome. In the Director of Criminal Intelligence. through the eye of ̈:

In conclusion, we are instructed

POISONED FOKIS..

ALL OUT OF DANGER..

With regard to the case of the

A curiosity in wills is mentioned in the Aberdeen University Review. It is stated that Mrs. Harrower has left a bequest of £1,000 for a stained glass window in King's College Chapel. "The window," it is added, "is to be called the Har-

a needle than existed between the community William Heughan, the Scottish live fokls of a shop in Graham rower window, and is to be in

for a rich man to enter the King

dom of Heaven, has been quoted against the rich Ponsonby's and Mosley's of the Labour Party, who,

generally and Service men, and wi

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The examination question at the

have no doubt that these traditions actor-singer who made such a hit Street, who were removed yester-memory of my husband's (Profes- will continue to be upheld, for we

in Hongkong on his two visits here, day morning to the Government sor John Harrower) long period of all know how much we owe to the iz being loudly-acclaimed by the Civil Inspital after eating a meal, service in Aberdeen University." Army and the Navy. Hongkong Press of the United States and which is presumed to have con- But Professor Harrower i still it is argued, have weakened their will hope that there will be no occa-Canada. The musical critic of the tained poisonous substances, en alive, and still Professor of Greek position by not during to deny thussion for these new men to experi- Chicago Daily Tribune ya:quiries this morning showed that at the University, as he has been. the Labour party is the Kingdom although knowing full well that, if the finest bass voice in the world." from the hospital soon after

ence war conditions in the East, "Heughan has, I honestly believe, one of the victims was, discharged (shice 1886.

of Heaven, hit the Conservatives matters came to that unhappy pass Mr. Heughan is returning to Eur-admission, while the other four have been no less astray in assum account of themselves.

they would, one and all. give a fine land in April, for a tour, of Great |"are doing_nicely."

school had been "Write down What we

Britain.

One or ing that the Labour party is an

two platters of meat, briefly what you know about are more concerned with at the

including a

course of chicken, Caesar and Pompey."" Underworld which no rich man moment is that the stay of the Passengers suiling for Home to- have been taken to the Govern- One boy's answer began- would enter unless he were a fool.tr and naval units in this day by 8.8. Sarpedor include Sir ment Analyst, and his report as "Caesar and Pompey were very

Colony should be made as brightery Gollan, Lady Jane Grey, to the exact nature of the poison- much alike, especially Pompey." But, to give attention to the seri-and happy as possible..

Dr. H.M.E. Schurmann, Captaining will be made known later. ous side of the argument, we do not event of the newcomers remaining Wadeson, frs. A. J.

In the and Mrs. J. Masson, Mr. R. A. ace Why members of the Labourere for any appreciable length of and the Misses M. G. and L. G. Party should be denied the credit organised lines, should be done to and Mrs. J. L. Parren, Mrs. H. W. time, we feel that something, on Chesterton, Mrs. R. J. Hall," Mr. of really believing that the system muke their sucial conditions con- Kont. Mrs. Bungay, Mrs. H. M. of politics which they advocate fortable and enjoyable. - Down in Kendall, Mrs. J. A. Fredericks, would make the country a happier Singapore, a committee has been Mrs. W. E. Leckie, and Mrs. L. D.

formed for the special purpose of McNicholl. and better place for the majority entertaining the men as they pass

Demands for better treatment of people unless they give all their through, and it seems to us that

New York, Feb. 8. "wealth to the poor." Such an

Hongkong is to be the temporary and increase of wages have been home of the China reinforcements, recently submitted by the workers Trust Company has completed ar- The American Exchange Irving net is not expected, of the members steps should be taken to see that employed in the law courts at Can-rangements for the shipment of of other parties, who also believe they are shown some true British to. The men chim that they are $400,000 worth of gold bars from The matter is one not paid according to the usual lolland, this being the first ship- that their policies are best calcul hospitality.

Chesterton

GOLD BARS.

DUTCH SHIPMENT FOR AMERICA.

ated to bring about prosperity and worthy of carly attention, and we scale of salaries for members of the ment of gold from Holland to

hope that something tangible will happiness for all. If a rich man soon be undertaken.

holds the view that the programme

America for tex years.-Router's American Service.

Nationalist Government. The lower ranks receive only $22.50 a month while the junior employees, attendants, policemen and guarda of the Labour Party will make the.

get only $8 a month; such a small country richer, then his intellec meeting of the International Race high cost of living nowadays.| Entries for the Inaugural Race sum is not sufficient to meet the tual place is with that party. But, and Recreation Club of Macnu, The Administrative Committee has unless it is argued that the Labour Lid, close at 8 p.m. to-morrow.

Entry forms can be had from referred the matter to the Depart-Dollar on demand party has a monopoly of practical 'Muasrs. Linstead and Davis. ment of Justice for action.

Lighting-ut

TO-DAY

2/-13/16 6.10 p.m.

The young man could only find A sent next to a fishwife in a rail- way carriage, and expressed his disgust by many disdainful glances. At length she remarke.l. "All bet ye..ma mannie, you an mo's baith thinkin' the

same thing."

"What is that, woman?" "You are wishin' ye were sittin' next a gentleman.” "I am, indeed."

"So am Ah," replied the fishwife.

OBITUARY.

MR. W. A. LAVENDER.

Singapore, Feb. 8. The death occured to-day of Mr. W. A. Lavender, Assistant En- gincer of the P; W. D. who was shot by an unknown assailant at Malacca on January 31-Reuter.

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