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BIRTH.

HYNES.-On September

7th., 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hynes, a bonny son.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Cario, beg to thank all kind friends for their kind sympathy and floral tributes in their sad bereavement.

WEDNESDAY,

As we view it, Hongkong's need at the moment is developmunt the development of its resources,

is

SEPTEMBER 7, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

Two fresh enses of enteric fever were reported yesterday, both Chinese.

The P. and O. s.s. Alipore, with English mails, is due here

on Sunday, at about noon.

THAT CATCH OF THE SEASON,

[By Cynicus.]

The Very Idea!

From an American paper:- At long last have I discovered the

Little Wille paed to bite his origin of those wonderful stories, which, sealing the dizzy heights of Anger nulls. We took him to a human imagination, depict the chemist. The medicine-man put landing of finny monsters by dis- aracale on little Willie's finger' ciples of the great I. W.

nails. In simple language, I refer to fishing stories. Stories of the highest sky-scrapers are dwarfed to puny Insignificance when com- pared with the tall stories of scnle- But now I know that.

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It worked beautifully. Little Willie doesn't bite his finger nails any more.

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AN EXCESS OF ONE QUALITY IS the improvement of its services, ALWAYS HOUGHT AT THE EXPENSE OF and the extension of its industries. ANOTHER-Aumi. We have seen in the recent past how disastrously Hongkong's im-1 port and export trade can be affected by the political happen- ings at Canton and we ought, as a Colony, to broaden the bases of our foundations as much as ever posible. Not only is it as a

The s.s. Movara is due here scrapers. render service to goods in transit from Shanghai on Friday at mid-like the authors themselves, shing mere gateway that this Colony can day, with the Home mail via stories are born and not made.

I owe my enlightenment to an going in or coming from China, Siberia.

invitation to accompany two but, surely it is towards itself as

Mr. F. J. de Rome has reported doughty anglers to silent waters the home of great industrial pos- to the police the theft from his where dwelt denizens as long us any An amusing story of Royal Far yachting at Cowes in bygone days sibilities and as the highly-or-house of a gold watch and other well-stretched imagination. ganised and efficient entrepot of a property valued altogether at $87. be it from me to bait with carping is told by the veteran Earl of criticism the sole ray of mine hosts' Meath. Once, when he was with great hinterland that it ought to The Taiping, arriving from bliss, knowing full well that even Queen Victoria aboard her yacht, a worm will turn at the sight of he noticed that the sailors were turn and minister in times, when Australian ports and Manila, re- a trumped docel Neither will standing in knots, talking in the flow of other trade is weak. ports the death of one, Chinese crab the plaire where these mons-Whispers, and looking towards

not mine Our Government by encouraging Passenger en route, front naturalters (the denizens;

Her Majesty. Was there a mutiny, hosts) skate or perek, lest unthink-

went to the ing boyster up further trouble he wondered, and

investment here In the building of roads, bridges, waterworks, har-

causes.

There WAS

old an Madrid, Who ate 65 eggs for a quid. When asked, "Are you faint?""

He said, "No, I ain't, But I don't feel as well as I did."

The Harbour Oflice report for for them. Gondness knows! They captain to inquire.

"No," said the captain, "but Her bour works, etc., would not only the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. this have a hard enough ree to hoe as Majesty is sitting upon "the keg

be giving the people who live her a greater stake and therefore. "a

deeper interest in the welfare of a much more valuable Colony,

morning gave 11 arrivals and 13 departures, British registering six and three respectively, leaving 64 vessels in harbour, British 30.

is!

of rum, and it is time for the men Stealthily we stole alon” the edge to have their usual tot, which

of those silent waters until a clear- ing presented itself, Here a few silent glances at the unrippled sur

Ead recently disported themselves, lace revealed that a fair sized herd

but would be taking advantage of the present situation in which a fall from the second floor of the and we quickly got to work to en-

A workman at the Taikoo Sugar: Rennery was seriously injured in old building within the refinery yesterday. His spine was injured, and he was removed to the Govern ment Civil Hospital.

there is much unemployed liquit cash. The encouragement of pri- vate enterprises is most especially needed at a time like the present A wrist watch, which was found when we are waiting for a lead. and handed over to the police at Pell Street, and a lady's handbag Hongkong's industrial possibili-containing money and other pro- ties, which exist because of its perty, left behind on a seat at the Jarge supply of reliable labour Star Ferry Wharf at Kowloon, are now in the custody of the police and its facilities for transport,

awaiting claimants. have as yet only" been indicated, and there is much room for the During a quarrel between two cowherds at Wo Hop Shek Village, Government to foster the coming in the Sham Shiu district of the of new enterprises by opening New Territories on "Monday, one up suitable sites and giving all of them, a boy of, 16, was alleged to have been fatally stabbed by the those first-rate public utility ser- other, who was only eleven years vices demanded, of attractive in-of age. The injured boy was re- dustrial centres. At the moment moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital the whole drift of Government where he died yesterday. The

police have arrested his alleged a policy is to subordinate develo sailant who will be produced be- ment to economy, and, unfor-fore the Magistrate on a charge

of murder:

Hongkong Telegraph.tunately, the effect of that is to

the

DEVELOPMENT.OR ECONOMY?

EXCHANGE RATES.

Berlin

Oslo

Helsingfors Madrid Lisbon Athens

London, Sept. 6.

up

they can't get till she moves."

Lord Menth told the Queen, who smiled, and quickly changed her position.

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Magistrate: What a most singu- lar person you are!

Defendant (charged with use are as many as possible should of obscene language): I never they ahow signs of coming

swear not anywhere. fur air, Tackle was as- sembled, and several large worms breathed a sigh of re- lief as they sank to the depths be Detective (referring to articles low on their mission of enticing destroyed in the C.I. Branch ex- their prey to swallow. more than plosion): The beer did not go up, they could really be expected to though. It was stored in another chew.

place.

Solicitor: down!.

It usually goes

Magistrate (to defendant charg- ed with drunkenness): Fined 5/-

It cannot be said that the sport was bad, for several large baas were dealt with in quick succession. This, however, was merely by way of preliminaries, for mine hosts proceeded to steal back from the or six hours." water's silent edge in order to as- Defendant (to policeman, as he me the prone position (reversed).is led from court): Can you lend An hour or two passed, and, after me five "bob"? and commotion in the jungle indic- anxious watching, a sudden yell Defendant (charged with steal-

want a remand for a week. ated that there was something doing): I plead not guilty, and I

too late; crushing

Magistrate: For what reason? ing. Hurriedly, I reached for, roy topee, but

Defendant: Oh, I don't know. through the undergrowth towards I'll plead guilty. me came an unfuriated form, neither fowl, nor beast, nor fish, but

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one of mine hosta excitedly yelling the common cold back in history? How far is it possible to trace

It was -common ailment in

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"I've got a bite!....A BITE!"

"Hurrah!" encouragingly re- plied, thinking that at last should Shakespeare's time "Mach Ado." "Cymbeline." "The Shrew," and we really see a' finny monster.... but....las, the only monster I be- Cressida" have references to it hold was an extremely funny one...and a poem of about 1460 talks 124 mine host, who had been rudely of a "cold in thi hede." The 4.80 1/16 awakened from dreaming of land- Romans knew it, as Horace testi- .34.914 ing the catch of the sca-fied with his "nisi cum pituita 25.21 son....by the bite of a hornet! molesta est." The Bible is less 12.124Nevertheless. That was a big fish definite, though one might have

.89.45 the poor fish dreamt about!

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BROADWAY FOLLIES.

CLEVER SHOW AT THE QUEEN'S.

presumed it to be first of all all- ments when Adam and Eve were turned out of Paradise: it makes no mention of "cold" in the medical sense of the word, or even of the Elizabethan "rheum." But there is no sign that the Jews were learned in diagnosis: for the most part a

was merely "sick."

man

the Leisure without beauty is an

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scal up private money which might otherwise be induced into cm- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1937ployment to the benefit of all. The Government hus rightly re- tained its large personnel in most Paris of the Departments and we sug- New York

Brussels gest that it would be real con- Geneva structive 'economy to employ Amsterdam The more we study the present staffs on whatever development Milan trade position of this Colony and work is obviously desirable, to go Stockholm

generally unsatisfactory ahead with needed public works Coper.hagen "atmosphere" of the local and to pay for them out. of a Vienna business world the more We reasonably-sized loan of a long Prague are convinced that the Govern term nature, to encourage private ment could do much to im- enterprise by grunting all facili prove matters if it bestirred itself.ties possible (by financial help Bucharest

.6.27/82 The Broadway Follies who have We know, of course, that the trade if necessary); and to explore all Rio

48.3/04 beon giving audiences at of Hongkong is largely measured channels that promise the growth Buenos Aires

.1/5.61/64 Queen's something newer in the entirely undesirable thing-Dr. Bombay by Imports and exports which mere of the domestic solidarity of this Shanghai

2/6 character of vaudeville shows than Percy Buck.

Geneva has become a sort of 1/11ueually seen here, improved, if ly pass through and which are Colony. We are a little too proné Hongkong

1/11.15/16 that were possible, on their pre- Foreign Ministers club.-Sir Ar- handled by the wholesale mer-to look outside our own bound- Silver (spot and forward)...25.5/10 vious performances

yesterday thur Willert. chants and agents, and also by the aries for all the influences that

We are doing all to make rail- -British Wireless. when they presented a complete

change of programme.,

way travel more attractive.--Sir- volume of shipping which that either retard or accelerate qur

'There

practically full Herbert Walker. import and export trade brings, financial activity. The Govern-

houses at all shows and the au- Children should not have any- If trade reports and the repre-ment's faith in the future might be for restrictive action against trapdience is fully enjoyed the spirit thing whatever to do with wireless pers will, nevertheless, meet with a sentatives of business houses are profound but its actions savour certain amount of sympathy, inas-and verve with which some turns, or the pictures." Mrs. G. K

wait much as it will ensure that a pro- notably the Exhibition Charleston, Chesterton. to be relied upon, as indeed they over much of a desire to

Many buildings in London must, there has been a steady im- and see. We suggest that wait-portion of game birds will be re- danced by two ladies of the Follies,

served for the man armed with a were given. The Mexican Tango simply hold together for old asso- provement discernible during recenting at this, précise moment is shot-gun. It is doubtful, though, was cleverly performed by Miss ciation's..sake. The passing of a months. Trade with the hinter-policy of discouragement and that whether the authorities can be ex- Helen Cook and Mr. Kurowsky, big motor lorry preys heavily on

2.5 a Wood. land is reviving, though that reby indulging in it the Government pected to legislate merely so that who were warmly applauded. In their feelings. Mr. H. D. Searles-

sportsmen will have more to kill in the final item, described vival is doubtless slower than is in no way helping to promote areas already very much shot over. Warsaw Polka Burlesque, the pantomine. most of us would wish. But we the revival we all so ardently It would be more within the mark Follies introduced would like to point out that there desire,..

is a very large commercial, indus-

Preservation of Game,

Yokohama

were

a

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Advertisement in American paper-Widow with six children five and a football. would like to marry widower with

In front of the omnibus in to expect legislation preventing effect, and succeeded in thorough which I was riding this morning cruel methods of trapping, or elsely amusing all.

(writes a correspondent in the designed to preclude the possibility In the picture

programme, Morning Post) there lumbered a horse-drawn ice-van, of entire extermination of certain Norma Shearer and Lew

Cody, yellow teial and financial activity here.

wild creatures. The Chinese vil- two established. favourites with steered by a swarthy Italian. which is purely domestic to this

Our driver was obviously im- lagers who trap game are exercis-Hongkong picture-goers, combine Colony, little connected with the

ing, we believe, a very old practice, import and export trade which

There has been considerable cor- which they have come to look upon pleasingly in "A Slave of Fashion," patient of the delay; and present- The van driver's reply was for- passes by. Our permanent popu. respondence lately about the pre- as a right, and the machinery that a well-acted production telling of ly, he burst forth, "Now then,

servation of game in the Colony, would be necessary to check the the eternal craving of a woman Sacco, get on with yer vanno.!" lation is nearing the 900,000 mark or the lack of protection therefor. practice in its entirety-particular for fine clothes. This picture was

a Gaumont tunately lost in, the roar of traffic. and a tremendous number of in- It appears that local sportsmen of ly as much of it is done in the very shown along with habitants earn their livelihood in the legitimate type, those who take early hours of the morning or at Graphic, and together with the ways almost unaffected by whe- the trouble to obtain licenses and dusk can hardly be worth while Broadway Follies, constitutes a to fit themselves out with guns and in a place which is not noted for very attractive programme which ther the through flow of goods is, dogs, and so forth, are finding less its game. It would appear that the will be again repeated at all por large or small. Hongkong has to shoot every year. To a certain local sportsmen will have to be conformances to-day.

extent, the continuous shooting over tent with the very meagre "bags"

Holding that it was contrary to, definite and distinct economic restricted areas is to blame, and they now experience, or else go in

public policy, the Paris courts Identity itself, apart altogether the gradual development of outlying for the shooting of the species of From the latest number of have declared invalid an amazing marriage contract at the request from what might be the state of territories, including the filling up barking deer that, proclaimed ver- Sporting and Dramatic

Two argumentative members of of the young husband, who found of swamps, must eventually drive min long ago, are being ruthlessly the trade of South China or its certain migrant birds away from killed, particularly in the New Ter politics, and it is in connexion areas where they are wont to stay ritories, and so far have found a club were holding a hot debate that his theoretical opinions were with that internal and domestic for a while every adaaon, to mate none to champion their case. The over the situation in the East intolerable when put into practice.

or seck food. The principal game writer recalls that his first impres-While they were wrangling life of the Colony that the in- bird here is the partridge, and there nion of "sport" in this Colony was mutual friend entered the smoke was agreed that each should be fluence of the Government is very is also a fair number of quail to be the sight of a party who had been room and took a seat near the free to seck happiness elsewhere. obtained each year, as well as out with dogs near Taivo, about twain. One of them appealed to Thus the wife was to have "men great indeed. In this connexion snipe. Otherwise, there is very, four years ago, and had shot a doe the newcomer. "Look here, Bill" friends," and the husband "lady we would like, once more, to refer little to shoot, and those who, like which was in young. Perhaps that he said, "perhaps you can help friends."

When the husband discovered, to the Government's policy of rigid the writer, have shot over lands was an isolated instance, but first to settle this matter for us. The "economy" and suggest that It is where these and other game birds impressions count for a lot, and it point at issue is this: To whom however, that his wife was acting are plentiful in their season give left a somewhat poor' idea of the does Hongkong actually belong."on the agreement, he sued her for not a very wise one when viewed up the attempt here in disgust after type of sport to be obtained here, The third man thought for a divorce. The wife unsuccessful It appears inevitable and eventually led to the diaposal moment and then replied, "Well ly argued that the agreement in relation to the Colony's obvious one riu, need of a quickened financial and that game will be almost extermin- of treasured weapons of the chase I'm not exactly certain at the excused her conduct, which in or ted from Hongkong and the main which had been obtained in more moment, but I think it is trained dinary circumstances gave ground:

The plea favoured climes.

by Alec Taylor."

for a divorec, commercial activity.

land in years to comic

On the eve of their marriage it.