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Choose "well,

your choice is brief,

but endless!

Carlyle.

FOR CHRISTMAS.

What shall I give HER or HIM P.

GO TO WATSON'S

there in all departments you will find articles and gods in great variety that will make

USEFU

ELEGANT and

DESIRABLE

GIFTS

that will please the giver and delight the recipient.

Just Out!

NEW VICTOR RECORDS

FOR

DECEMBER

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

(VICTOR DISTRIBUTORS)

CHATER LOAD

Tel. 527

BUY

THOSE

TOYS

AT

FOR THE

TOTS

TO-DAY

Lane, Crawford's

Open to 6 p.m. Ibla week.

Tel 527.7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE "TAYCO" STOVE

GIVES ALL THE SERVICE YOU REQUIRE

FROM ONE FIRE. COOKING, HOT WATER AND DRYING ROOM.

Sole Agant~~

DODWELL & Co., Ltd.

DEATH.

Elizabeth Annie

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER

The present, arrangements for CHRISTMAS

motor transport, in spite of the generosity of the Wharf and Godown Company, are a 'disgrace

to this Colony; and it is certainly safe to predlet that if there were

the

21, 1928.

ROMANCE.

[By W. Greenwood, F. S. A.]

vehicular ferry facilities

In the 'ffles of last century the progenitor of the Christains cracker cross-harbour traffic would in- was a very modest altair of white crease enormously, and almost at tissue paper with fringed and dyed once. "We have a quarrel with the edged in which a few sweets were placed, and its sales were counted way in which some of the trans-in hundreds. To-day its gloritled portation coste, have been worked out in the Government report, for it is hardly fair to calculate what would be the cost of transportation

This transformation is largely by lorry and vehicular ferry due to the enterprise of the firm from a waterfront godown on the of Messrs. Tom Smith and: Com- Kowloon side to

a waterfront pany, whose wonderful factory the

and gorgeous successor is a work of skilled hands, and scattered far of art employing many thousand and wide over the earth in almost countless millions,

`DAY BY DAY.

DAY FILLOWS ON THE MURKIEST-Į NIGHT, AND, "WHEN THE TIME COMES, THE LATEST ÉRÜITS WILL RIPEN.--. Schiller.

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H.M.S. Storincloud and H.M.S. Sterling arrived at Shanghai from the Yangtsze on Thursday.

Attractive calendars are to hand from D. Chellaram, of the Popular Silk Store, and from the N.Y. offices,

were notified yesterday, all being Chinees. Of these, 13 were from Kowloon districts.

Fifteen more cases of small-pox

The Very Idea!

One of the neatest forms of shoplifting has just been carried out successfully in one of the large bout and shoo establishments in South London. A "customer" entered the store, took a seat, and was shown a number of, shops. Eventually ho allowed the shop assistant to ince up a selected pair, then, after taking a few stops up and down the carpeted floor, naked to see another type of shoe. The asaintant mounted the shop step-

Imider to reach a high shelf. Ha descended and turned to where he had last seen the "customer," only to find that he had disappeared, A Chinese suffering from a frac- leaving his discarded and well- tured skull was admitted to the worn cast-offs. A pair of old

godown on the Hongkong side, and writer was privileged to visit a few Government Civil Hospital yestergloves, placed on an adjoining

months ago.

the

circles in Malaya where he had re- aided for many years. He was ad- mitted as a partner of Osborne and Chappel as long ago as 1891, the year in which the firm introduced hydraulic working in the tin mines

im leave the stores.

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* (A lady swimmor has just created a record in Amarica by remaining in the water for 81 hours.)

7.

Believe me, I do not begrudge

her the praiso

She's given, who, so we are

fold,

Remained for a matter of nearly

three days

In the sen, which is apt to be

cold,

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But, since of some fault for

which I was to blame

My Mary still scathingly

apenks,

Though it happened long since,

I can truthfully claim Ta have been in hot water for

weeks.

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contrast it with cost of transpor- · It was on a blazing July after day in a serious condition and died seat, had succeeded in removing

shortly after admission. A polica tation by junk and coolfes. A noon, when thoughts of Yuletide report statea that the man re-any suspicions which might have were as remote as the Poles, that 1ceived. his injuries when he fell been entertained by the other better idea of cost, comparison visited this famous cracker factory, from a cockleft to the floor of his assistants in the shop at seeing

from which could be gained by taking the pre- the headquarters

The deceased lived at No. 1 Enatorn sent

cost. of conveying cement Father Christmas showers with use a drop of some nine fest.

prodigal hand millions of gay Street. from Hunghom to the site of a coloured tokens of jollity and good- building (eny, on Caine Road), or will over the whole world from The death is announced of Mr. "China to Peru." Outside, the W. R. Chuppel, mining engineer and by taking any example where there streets were sweltering under the formerly a partner in the firm of is a fair amount of Innd trans-midsummer sun; inside, Christmas of Osborne and Chappel, of Ipoh. Mr portation Involved on each side reigned supreme, with, all its at Chappel was well-known in mining of the harbour. If a contractor mosphere of fun and festival.

Everywhere was a riot of time could loud a forry at Kowloon and and tissue, spangles, ribbons and get that load transported without silk, many-hued as the rainhow

Christmas toys, knick-knacks and changing lorries to a site on the curioa lay scattered about in tens, Hongkong side, his cost would, we of thousands, as if poured out of of the F.M.S.

gigantic and magical are aure, be less than now, after some

cornucopia; Christmas mottoes Private James Boyle, of the adding the $1 for ferry fare. "' flashed their genial greetings K.O.S.B., who is under a charge

fell, cyca The weakness of the present wherever.

and of attempted murder, and, alter- throughout the vast bullding hun- natively, of cutting and wounding report in that it outlines a com- dreds of deft hands were busy mini- Sergeant Kerr whilst on board the BATEMAN.--November, 1929, plete and expensive scheme for stering to Christmas pleasure five, troopship Somersetshire, was again

Bateman,

remanded at the Central Magis Formerly Head Mistress, which the Colony is hardly yet months ahead.

"We re-opened our works on the tracy this morning for one further Belilios Public School.

ripe. It should be possible to

twenty-eighth of last December," week. The incident, it will be re- proceed by caster stages, and we said my cicerone, and we shall go called, occurred on October 20,

vessel was The

are somewhat surprised that no on working. until next Christmas while the

Eve; and 1 can assure you it will Colombo, It is understood that the attempt has been made in the take us all our time to get our hugo Sergeant's condition, I still pre-ahe arranged with a friend in report to cater for the interim supply in readiness. And, period between now and the time with our twelve months of prepara→

tion, there is always a rush at the forty hands were sufficient for the when the full scheme would be a end, for commissions have a knack demands made on them. The first sound economic venture. If the of coming in at the last moment." Improvement on the very primitive as far as Bangalore, and Paddy, After this starting statement I cracker of the time was making after an absorbing journey, was transportation песия of this VEHICULAR FERRY:

was not surprised to learn that a the paper, or envelope, longer, the safely installed with charpoy, Colony are going to languish until thousand pairs of hands are kept ends being secured together with chuddar, and basin la his new Considerable public interest will a full scheme would be a paying constantly at work from Christmas the fingers. Then followed the home. The next morning his mis- to Christmas; that the millions of "anap," the crimping of the erds tress resumed her journey to Bom no doubt have been aroused in the proposition, then we are in for

crackers turned out in a single, with a cord instead of with the bay, and her husband returned to publication of the Government's many more years of bad service year, if placed end to end, would fingers, and the modelling-stick Madras.

The reach from London to New York, which ensured uniformity of size. Thirty-six hours later "Master” report

hindered un the question of the and

or would make a close-packed Next came paper caps from was electrified, when an exhausted provision of a vehicular ferry schemes for a harbour bridge or column considerably larger and Germany; and, with the introduc- little Irish terrier flung himself service, the malu features of tunnel are adversely commented wider than Nelson's monument. tfon by the firm of jewels, trinkets, at his feet, his pawe raw and

"Everything connected with the toys, and so on, the popularity of bleeding. which wo published yesterday, upon, and it is to ferries that we

He had been seen racing along even though the document must look for a relief of the crackers," my guide informed me, the cracker increased by leaps and

is made on the premises. Cap. bounds.

the railway track, at various places makes

specific recom-present situation. It would be making, for instance, is a huge Among the

curious along the route between Bangalore mendations for dealing with encouraging

news for motorista department in itself, millions of crackers made by the firm was and Madras, a distance of roughly interested in these articles being cut out yearly one for a wealthy, but bashful, two hundred and fifty miles or the problem upon which so much and all others

vehicular transportation if the by a series of machines. The bachelor who could not summon up thereabouts,

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DEC. 21

discuss

NO

1928.

of view. But the disappointment

tial

progress.

› Britain's Recognition,,

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of

China. The

was #

Bec

even carious.

1

Each girl, I found, is equipped Walker."

many

Dearing

A lady in Madras who was about sail for England feared that in her absence her Irish terrier, Padly, might not be properly cared for, especially as her hus- band was frequently out in the district "on Lour." Consequently

Bangalore to take care of Paddy. till she should return to India.

Her husband accompanied her

प्रे

"Marriage Is a parlous adven-

Vory serious stop for babies.”----

behaviour.

"She has the usual artfulness of

time and labour have already been Government announced its inten-packing is all done by another set courage to propose to the lady of

of workers, in hoxes all made on his heart. In one end of the A man at Mansfield, Notting- spent. It is admitted in the very ten of considering some tempor- the premises, the designs upon cracker was placed a valuable hamshire, said he would plead first sentence of the report that "ary scheme-1 announcement them, also home-made, being engagement-ring; and, said my guilty to half the charge of being | vehicular ferry appear to be the which we think it ought to make colour-printed here. We have an friend, the 'pop' of the cracker led drunk and disorderly and added pop of another kind, and a bottles of beer, but was not drunk, that he had drunk twenty-four extensive printing plant, litho to a most practical assistance towithout further delay,

graphie and engraving depart happy marriage."

Witness In a motor-car case at facilitate vehicular communication |

ments, and editorial and artistle. For many years the firm sup- between Hongkong and Kowloon,"

| Kingston-on-Thames: The defon- plied a thousand crackers to Dandant never attempted to stop until staffs. In signing the new tariff treaty. and then the report goes on to recognising the principle of com-in this hive of busy hands, how Christmas

What I was must anxious to see Lene for the monster juvenile

parties that good-he was stopped. plete tariff autonomy for China, the questions of ferry Sir Miles Lampson, the British ever, was the actual making of the hearted comedian loved to give;} pier sites, the type of ferry are for wise adults, but it is a which would be required, and the portant step in diplomatic rela- of nimble-fingered girls, any one of supplied crackers for use in the Mr. Cairns, the Thames magis- estimated cost and revenue of the tions beween the British Govern- whot, if expert, can easily turn. Drury Lane pantomime by the late trate, to a man and wire main ment and The National Gov-out from four to six gross a day. Harry Payne; and "Whimsical and 20 charged with disorderly various schemes which were con-ernment sidered. The report plumped in ond step

"I remember," says Mr. Walter natural with a store of the various papers consequence. The signature having and contents, a gluepot (in which, Smith, the latter telling me what a widow.”—A Íandlord's descrip- favour of a vehicular ferry service conferred de jure recognition by the way, only one anger is a fright he once got when, ition of his lodger at Shoreditch between Jubilee Street, Hongkong, automatically, there could be no dipped), and the requisite im throwing crackers up to the Royal County Court. and Jordan Roul, Kowloon, and a further purpose in withholding plements, which consist of a hollow box where Queen Victoria and her, Mr. Cairns, the Thames magis- formal recognition, and the cylinder, a metal block of the grandchildren were seated, he all trate: If every Southern Irishman careful perusal of its contents ceremony was carried out yester. same pattern, and a piece of but hit her Maesty in the face, that promised to go back to Cork convinces us that that conclusion day morning with much pageantry, string. First of all, the worker Whimsical Walker' wae greatly did so, there would be a substan- was a sound one, from all points Sir Miles presenting his creden- spreads out in front of her the upset fearing that her Majesty tial increase in the population of

Britain's Minister outer gorgeous covering of the would be annoyed, and did not feel that city. Plenipotenitary to Marshal Chiang fringed ends, together with the at all happy until he saw the of the report lies in the fact that Kai-shek. The decision will an inner white sheet or lining and Queen laughing heartily at his Two newly-arrived visitors to a hotel in Florida were ordering the cheapest acheme considered have no doubt there will be cun-which are made by machinery on

peal to liberal minds, though we the ornamental borders, all of misadventure."

The Christmas cracker has breakfast. was an elaborate one which was siderable criticism in such quar- the spot. Then the "snap" is lald occasionally assumed Gargantuan. The first visitor informed the estimated to cost over $1,700,000, tere as habitually regard every centre-wise, and the whole quickly proportions, such as that which negro waiter that he wished grape loading to the inevitable con- sion. It may be pointed out, block being placed inside at the New York theatre last year. This and coffee; the other visitor (who auch friendly gesture with deri- rolled round the cylinder, the caused no little sensation in a fruit, bacon, eggs, pancakes, syrup, clusion that "it would appear that with a certain amount of justifica | other end.

giant towered sixteen feet high, came from Boston, that resort of at the present time, a vehicular tion, that the political leaders at The division occurring between and when it was exploded, with American propriety), said, “I will. forry would be unable to earn represent

Nanking have no greater claim to these two marks the place for the report of a small cannon, a have precisely the same, but with

a stable Government tightening the cracker, and this is door flow open in its middle and the eggs eliminated." sufficient return to justify the than was the case, alx months quickly done by means of the disclosed a merry party of six, The negro waiter floated away, cost of installation."

ago. It may even be true that string or fingers, before the drinking each other's health only to return with an apologetic signs of disruption in their ranks souvenir or the article-whether around # table on which a smile. Surely, there is no need to are already appearing, that with doil, jewel, mask, or toy-is, sumptuous feast was spread.

"Tso powerful sorry, boss, 'but, embark immediately upon a big the oplum scandal and the ques-dropped In through the aperture A cracker large enough to con- we kain't fix you dem alge you

tion of the abolition of the by the brass tube aforesaid. This tain vehicular ferry scheme, involving branch political councils still is then withdrawn, and that end sufficiently startling, but what handle of de eliminator, and he a fair-sized dining-room la wants. The cook's done bruck do the expenditure of well over Aimportant issues, the present is sealed in like fashion as the shall we say to one as tall as the kain't get a new one till next. million dollars on reclamations Government may be broken in the other. After this the pictorial average house, and capaciousa | Toosday." and ferry piers and over half a however, to be well satialled with fashion before the cracker is pass as many storeys? Such was the near future. We ara Inclined, emblems are affixed in skilful enough to provide three rooms.on

Officer:-"How can you tell that million on ferry boats? Why not the broad principle embraced.ed on to the packing department. Brobdingnagian cracker erected the prisoner had been celebrating“, d modest beginning? Let it be with China, her concllintory crackers, many of them are now-ball-room of his country house.

Britain's undoubted sympathy As for the contents of the by a North Country baronet in the too fresly?". granted that the cost of building attitude to every reasonable point adays objects of real valuc,-artis- This gigantic cracker, which took standin' outsido is tent at twelve. Corporal:"Because, sir, 'e was three vehicular and passenger of view, and the declarations of tically speaking, such as little half a dozen workmen some weeks o'clock argifyin' with the sergeant,

December, 1926 and January, 1927, knick-knacks ferry boats would cost half a

ar foreign curios to erect, was a structure of wire-sir." formal recognition on the Nan-einsste vases, etc., in biscuit-a platform which made it still I left little option but to conferching pug dogs, reproductions of work, thirty feet high, standing on Officer:-"That is no proof that can' Bee. Scolamen always: king Government at the earliest china, scent-bottles in miniature, more imposing,

Argue." piers at Jubileo Street and Jordan pointed out last week when the scent-bottles.

convenient opportunity. As we fans, and small Venetian-china. Across the Atlantic It is no Corporal:-"But there weren't Road should not be inexpensively negotiations were opened, the test agents ransack the whole world of pounds on a single cracker in

Mesars. Smith's unusual thing to spend hundreds no sergeant there, sir."

million dollars. Even then we see

no reason why the present landing

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converted so as to render it difficult one to apply in China. thousands of which come

of stability, is an exceedingly for these quaint curios, tens of which is enshrined some costly Two Aberdonians went bathing.

which would be

any

possible to drive vehicles on and We cannot conceive, at this stage, the Far East,

from piece of jewellery, such as a One said—"Ill bat you sixpence off. We see no reason why, if of any change of Government

diamond ring, pendant, or bracelet, I can stay under water longer than. This gigantic business, I was One millionaire, indeed, is said.to | you.” we cannot have the whole scheme spectacular for instance, than a nodeatly, cradled by the father of on specially-designed crackers, Both submerged.

more told by my genial guide, was very spend thousands of pounds yearly The other said "All right." we cannot have a piece of it-the victory for the Labour Party at the present head of the firm about which contain expensive presents The police, are still looking for.

plece that is most urgently needed, the polls in England next year.

Boventy years ago, when thirty or for his friends.

the bodies.