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The and O. 8.a, Kashmir, fram Singapore, is the here at 10 min. to-

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RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

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By ROBERT MAGILL.

HE latest atrocity which has and a garden roller. On wet days heen dug out of the bow-front-] you roll; on dry days you now. On

or other days you do both. walnut escritaire Victorian days is the confession You never play tenals, of course.

by post from a so-called friend with be too exhausted, although myself the request that I should fill a page. I have grown such muscles that when a foolish worm tries to com- Well, like this:--- News has reached Singapore that

Which Is Year. Favourite mit suiclde under the roller, I don't Mr. Alexander Gordon, the Municipal

I Architect, died at Colombo on his way Character in Fiction?-Blueboard, trouble to go round and shift it.

I need not explain why. Ask any simply lift, the roller over it. home on leave,

other married man.

There has been a good dent of Warships in harbor were "dress Your Favourite Flowert--A | stuff written about back apin, but bed" this morning on the ovensten of turnip top run to seel. I can't help practically nothing at all on the the 21st anniversary of the arcession it. I don't like turnips, and i am liner points of the game, such as to the Throne of HM, the King.

glad to know that some of them when the roller sticks on n muddy patch and your feet keep working | haven't been dug up to be calen.

hove unt they Your Favorite Soup "Darling automatically

H.M.S. Cornwali arrived in hariotr needed by reason of the dullar she was recommissioned. slump. The 120 of money absorbed in this way within the past year or so must have been prodigions. The ing of 10 siluation is that the Colony la not getting anything extra in the way of servies or the provision of new amenities from this money: to all A lies Woma fell from the intents and purposes. from this second storey of a house under com standpoint, it might just as well struction at Tainum Street, Sham-I am growing old." Since I bought churned up a square yard of Lurf

An aluminium snap-holder, the into a sea of mud. shulpo, yesterday, and was killed.

Jacoustic properties of our bathroom. And anybody can study the half-

valley for me. of the 1931 are ident for the low notes.

What The

I want to ofBelal Agures */*/ 1 t ) ។ for the municipal

Animal!- know is why it is always ensler to Your Favourite aren of

item may be, of more funds being at 7, a.m. to-day from Home, where fuks, and I have just received one Even if you had time, you would

have been thrown into the sea.

So far as the community is run- cerned, these things would wol greally matter wore the Colony in such a fortunate position that it could meet these recurring addi 1: tional calls from its alanerst

thun in 1921 and 186,217 more tha

1911.

In

A fatal ave ident Hered

21 Shanghai Stret yesterday, when

rates.

Singapore show flint the tital popula. George's dog, It bit the patmaps the roller if you are pulling on is 446,017, which is who brought my dumami for the it, but when you change to pushing you discover that it would have Your Favourite Fond ---The item been easier to go on pulling it.

A tenuis lawn'is seventy-eight the menu at lunch which my friend chose in place of the one feet long by twenty-seven feet wide. am always fool enough to pick out it looks quite tiny when you see jounte nylph-like stock-broker who Your Greptent Ambition? Tollves next door hopping all over it, myself. Life is like that.

Oxford and Canabridge but when you start rolling it the win the Boat Race. The Derby and the other ena is hidden beyond tho Schneider Cup. to wwith the horizon, Channel, and, there is tim, to With steps as heavy as those of krock the afulling out of Car eft, the statue in "Don Glovanni” you all in one day. I know it sounds plod along. They say you must not returning here fa muda hard day's work, but it's nothing go too fast, Excuse me If laugh aguins although do what some film stars seem to do like Punchinello, unt with a break- Your Favourite Novel? -The one Ing heart, but a breaking back. I have been going to write for the Why, when I am racing álomg all med ten years out haven't started out I enn't do more than a yard in wet, becaner 1 haven't the faintest five seconds. tea what to write about.

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cantat do so, of course, and thus young girl, named Chun Aldi-shi, war Kawloon Bus Ca. Enquiries into the VEHKLES MAY BE INSPECTED į arises the peresalty of impostor u uver fy a bus belonging is the AT OUR STUURS ROAD GARAGE extra taxation which tat unly hits circumstances ari Beling Larsued by

The individual but an adds fresh 11 «Beis THE HONGKONG HOTEL] burdens to trzałe and industry. Tarty mile out of Houghong.

GARAGE.

These are some of the penalties | Chiarse about passenger, who gav

The name t f Kwan, jumped aveti which the Coleary ners from a

boned

from the Taishan Shale --WA ttuaking dollar. They will, w

He was Hot Sell are sure, in approqater to the bull

and was made, Jave 1! ' Currency Commission,

On a charge of stealing a blanket which ere leter s 11 for leasing dream the roof of a huge in Sai Yeung and reporting the situation to the Cho Street, thine who appeared Fimfice Mr. Halton at the Koveloomu 1. no hope terial authoriti

Marstrany this morninu:

The lunghong Shanskat lets. 10 Incorporated in Hongkong. 34, neen's Road C. and Hubbe Bond.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WIDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1911.

DOLLARS & YET MORE DOLLARS.

It und of montre, row's to the general ecoumanity that the fall in The

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that the erimesteca fit the outlook fenced to the months' hari labente. Being a ent. Faiting that, the only in one go you really do every incu

in this regard will be one of the the defendant having a previous con- vielion for larceny. The blanket was factors in induring the investi-the property of Mrs, K. Turnħuži,

of

weak hear!.

You have done one edge. Your If You Could Start Life Again. next track must overlap the last, What Career Would You Chinaet

ar you will leave a ridge, so that illionaire with a very for it twice.

At intervids our feet go down What P. Four Plate Most?--The one after another. That is not raln falling on the grass. It is the Making his third appearance withlu cat in front.

What The You Like Best? Say-sweat of your brow. That's the The the past these years on a charge of

returning from huvishment, a Chineng good-bye to people who just trouble. The more you Bush, or pull, the lighter you get and the who was deported for five years in popped in for a moment,

luvrd What Quality De You Like Best harder it is. was given sie nertube taleur by Mr. Ramilton at the Kowa Others A bad memory, so that

The roller goes elank--nquenk- his they don't remember, the funny clank. The birds are singing in the Hoop

story I told them once before,

Įtrees, hughing at you for a Icol. Which Is Your Own Best Points? They don't push rollers.

rators to advocate antenhegroitu retorn 17 th matter (Colony's currency.

Lord frwin's Reemvery. Until a few months ago it sewn-

has

Magistrney this morning. Worship remarking that in

keeping the defendant at

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RESENTMENT CAUSED BY

ACCIDENT.

--Aly strength of mind,

Bere, is a stiffer blade of grass What Do You Dislike Must in than usual. Yo, heave, ho, a strong them? The fact that they don't pull, or the roller won't go over it. take any notice of that said strength Now we go downhill the other side of mind, but insist on having their and the roller nearly runs away.

With trleeps tattered and torn:

With knees like loaves of bread:

own way after all,

A fellow tailed like a galley slave,

Pushing a roller of lead. Push-push-pul→→

ad only too possible that the winxpense of the Calony,

in India would end in fange value of The Hong wine

enta-trophy, Thanks, however, to hong deltar in enusing a tremente nuble juros which hela him | dou interesse in the most of the to his thanks task and to his

Far Out Worst Fault!-A ten- Urbany is pos ornament. Lest. how.mfinite patience, Lord Irvin

jdency to blush and fall over my feet COP the putlic

The rest urd the Eurland this work in

when some super smart woman Friend of my wife's flicks the ash well that attentisa triumph, to receive a sinal mn i

His Maja's Taymur. this

off her virgarettes metaphorically dialed bar direted to the financial

Following an accident in Morris iurus me over with a fork and looks insignia of Knight of the Charter, The ex-Viceroy made fr

son Streel yesterday, when a Chiat ner and says: "Oh. So this is

it 7" bvious, mistakes. The first was nere was knocked down by a motorit, is

If Not Yourself. Who Would You FORTS. and seriously injuryd, aj these, we gave some particulare committed when he agreed with red collected and belahoured the Like To BeMickey the Mouse. yesterday, and in almost every Lord Birkenhead in the appoint) instaner the motry was goeded ment of a purely British commis-driver, until he had to be rescued. 11 should love to dance on a piano with touch dificulty, by the police and pull a cow's tail, but I was too because at the Cavernment having sion to report on the next constitu- The injured man was taken to respectably brought up.

AB the grand | the Government Civil Hospital What Makes Life Worth, Liring | HUSBANDS. SORRY. th 16-1 Sterling counmitmentsional advance. from revenue freeived in depre.ffects of Lard Reading's efforts where it was found that he had for You?-Being alive, undoubted- revived injuries to one of his legs, ly. There may be people who get destroyed, 911- ciated silver. Whatever may be

fro-operation was revived, and the

nnt prepared to risk it yet. The effect of a stabilised dollar on broken ranks of Congress were res

The Song of the Lawn.

Audes which are to come up for consideration fo-morrow. of

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that the idea

With feet all weary and worn. And still with each gasp that split

his chest,

Ile sang this Song of the LawI,

Na. No more. It's too painful.

a kirk out of being dead, but 4 am FOR THEMSELVES;

Probably the finest thing to keep

By HELEN ROSE,

they have been subtly trapped into matrimony

Even if he's nothing to look st, and nothing to write home about; Jeven if he hasn't a hair on his head for a penny in his pocket he feels

thal, he has been caught.

Queerly enough, though a man hates to be thought a fool in his business lic he expects the sympathy of all other men over his matrimonial blunders! He gets it, too, from the bachelors, because, so far, they've been cleverer than he han, und from the married man be- cause they're fellow sufferers.

(the Colony's trade, there can be formed. Realising the error, he policy will not be dictated by in-

The a man in good health is tennis, and questioning itx beneSialtrove hard when the Labourence of the moment.

that everybody with a patch of ground influence < The Government's | Government took allee to retrieve

who wasn't rather sorry for Anamon.

By far the greater pro-it by a Round Table polies, and Britain will block the way to self-beyond that occupied by the dustbin HAVE you ever met a husband

government has been destroyed, ought to lay out a court. It de

himself? Who did not harbour

partion of tha

the resentment that in some way expenditurs for the sake of it, fell into the distrust is one, the difficulties velops the back, the front, and the incurred by the Ginvernment is on cond.. He treated Gandhi and within India among Indinas are sides, the arts and the legs; it en he'd been double crossed? All mar-

target the feet and raises large the Nehrus with marked teniencycoining to the front. and their blisters on the palms of the handied men have the illusion that they X sterling basis: with a fixed

in their law-breaking campaign solution is now the main bar to

It isn't playing tennis that dogs have been caught. However madly dollar, the Colony would know and very soon' India became cun- the arbievement nf political this. It is keeping the confounded they may have pursued their wives, and however indifferent sho may exactly where it stood and would vinced that the Government was India's aspirations.

grass in order with a lawn mower have beon, they sill believe that be able to budget on certainties a respecter of persons, that the

than indulge in rather

mere big agitators were safe.

reputation guesswork as to the likely trend of diminished

restored and Congress became the silver.

Looking through the votes which with scarcely a stroke in its own most important faction in India are to come before the Finance behalf. What some of Lord Committee f the Legislative | Irwin's critics omit to nee, how- Council to-morrow, we aft truck ever, is that his second mistake not only by the fact that original was bis last. From the time he provisions were rendered farcical decided to arrest Gandhi, he hit at as a result of the fall in the dollar, disorder steadily, and then as a culminating achievement, turned but also by the fact that, long

Gandhi into a co-operator, and after the Batimates were drawn enlisted his support on the side. up, the Government badly under- of peace and goodwill in Envland, estimated the gravity of the the Die-hard Press shouted position. It asked for and secured"Surrender" to the skies, and the supplementary votes for various feeling in Congress clrcles was commitments, but as time went on also that Gandhi had given away i It became apparent that more still too much. Both interpretations would be needed. Thus, to take seem to have been based on wrong estimations of Gandhi's | the most outstanding case in to sincerity on the one hand, and of morrow's vetes, that in regard to his power on the other. Ha Civil Pensions, we find that on an influence in India has survived original estimate of $535,000, a the settlement. It is being. im- total of more than a Inkh above plemented rapidly in some direc this figure had to be found. A

tions, though the economic boycott is dying hard. Meanwhile, the point to be borne in mind also is Hindu-Mosiem foud grows worse, that this extra lakh has had to be but this is unfortunately inherent raised, not for meeting the cost of in the approach to self-govern- local necessities, or for any pur- ment. It is a strugglo for power pose from which Hongkong will and thinga may get worse before benefit, but in order to pay pen- they get botter. The new Viceroy slons to former Civil. Servanta may, indeed, very soon find him- self faced with a reign of disorder, who have had the good fortune to

but he is a man of vision, and his Burvivo their service In the

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Husbands are the most conceited of creatures. Marriage raises their value enormously in their own eyes. They pester some wretched woman to marry them. They present her with a rope, draw it tight them- selves, and then say she's hanged them!

And why all this self pity? Just because they want to do exactly what they choose all their life and aren't allowed to. Directly a hus- band is crossed he begins to think how much happier he would be if not married. He will he were grizzle because he has ordered table d'hote and then thinks he wants a. la carte.

"Ho's married.” Someone will say of some man. And there will be a chorus of masculino groans: "Poor old chap!" And who but meaning glances will pass between them.

Every man is firmly determined that ho has only to put his nose out of his front doar to have it snapped off by a woman. He sees the net spread in every waitress's shingle, (Continued on Page 7.)

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