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The

TELEGRAPE. SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

THERE

MANY ARE

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts. ☐☐

Rabit breeders in England are DREAFFUL Talpana complain that during

seem muddle-headed. It.ts. They get value for bunny. THINGS IN LIFE, AND A DINNER OF the summer moat of their assist now said to be making good pro- MEN 19 THE WORST OF

fan't the heat; it's the stupidity.

ᄆᄆ Disraeli.

ALL.ants

There will be no Rotary Club tin on Tuesday, Empire Day.

A writer says you can always tell Food apecialists now recommend an Oxford Varsity man. Yes, but spaghetti as having health-giving not much!

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is inexplicable that there should be this continued delay. Indeed, it i nothing short of a disgrace that this Colony should be dependent on the whim and caprices of Colonial Office officials who have no direct knowledge whatever of our pressing necessities. Here we have a strik ing lustration of the weakness of the Crown Colony form of govery. tent, which prevents those on the spot from putting in and works

It is notified that Mr. W. J. E. Mac. elements. Exercise included, of which

are urgently needed. As lang ago as 1925, the Secretary of kenzie resumed duty as Colonial Ve-course. Sta.e for the Colonies, referring interinary Surgeon on 18th May. a telegram to the second section of the Shing Mun scheme, remarked that "I agree to the details being worked out, as it la obvious that thesu will be required before long in any case." To show, however, that the delay has not been wholly due to the Home authorities, it may be recalled that as late as 1929, Sir Cecil Clementi asserted that the scheme wax still In "a somewhat"

the same hazy condition." In

At the

Fashiona in canine pets are said Catholic Cathedral to,

its dog. morrow afternoon at 3.30 there will to be changing. Every day hus be Litany of the Baints for rain.

The Aga Khan's ambition is to

do a holo in one. It remains to

be seen whether the Aga Khan.

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Geneva in still talking about The situation in the Far East is disarmament. Arms and the ban. Mr. M. St. J. Walsh left for Eng-

ᄆᄆ and to-day by the P. & O Chitral. still unsettled. Ja-panic!

A local Indy anys she has a per- He expects to return in six months.

arrivals

from

fect specimen of the Pekingese

Quarantine restrictions imposed by Twins were recently born to n Hongkong against Saigon on account of small-pox have Mr. and Mrs. Rock. More pebbles dog. The Poke of perfection. been removed.

on the beach!

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"You

מ

ם.

According to a doctor, it's pos

from her thumb. Husbands who

have been brought to sible to tell a woman's character steered hubby into the cinema speech, Sir Cecil harped on the cost Vernall read an Interesting paper on book," as the wife sald when she have been under it for years say

At the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders on Thursday, Mr. J.

Town Planning."

Messrs. Lane, Crawford specially re- quest moonlight bathing parties re- quiring suppers to-night or to-morrow

in advance. night at Repulse Bay, to place orders

the official

box-office.

that's not a new discovery,

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ᄆᄆ Two things puzzling Hongkong There's not much going on these to judgo by some of the just now are the water problem days,

of the ladica bathing costumes seen al and the exact location Nudists' colany.

Repulse Bay

DO

The heaviest men in England are said to come from Devon- shire. Weigh down South!

DO

The

trouble cocktail

of the scheme and suggested that it would involve extra taxation,

The mow of Mr. Alexander Me- which was hardly justifiable. Well, Kellar has been added to the list of we have had the extra taxation, but auditors under the Companies Ordin we certainly have not got the secondances. section of the Shing Mun scheme even started as yet-no, not even permission to make a start..

However we look at the mutter, there can be no questioning the point that there has been an in- tolerable delay in getting ahead esteem, but so have with obvious needs. The earlier leaders--the people's elected re- whether Fedral delays must, in part, he laid at the presentatives,

They have taken) the local doar of

Government; State or leal. latterly, the Home authorities have the money of the taxpayer and i certainly been to blame. Between wasted it extravagantly and to nof about the two, the Colony has been badly purpose, inquiries in some of the parties is that let down. Sir William Peel and his larger cities have shown the Mani-you're liable to advisers have been pressing hard cipal Government to have been not see for authority to proceed with the only extravagant, but corrupt. to everybody work, a fact which made it easy for 1914 the cost of the Federal Gov-kums. the Government to accept Sir Henry ernment was $1,098,602,065. Last Pullock's motion. Now that the year the cost had risen to 4.821,- Unofficials and the Government are 374,569. During the same period united on the subject, it should be the popuintion of the United States possible to bring the Colonial Office had risen from 97,927,516 in 1914 to 124,070,000 in 1931. That is to But it is enuse for between † to its senses.

Pay that while the population of Stafford. IL.N., and Miss Muriel N. Riggs, dignation that in suelin vital mat-the United States increased 27 per of the United formerly of Hongkong, will take, ter we should have to patiently cent.. the Budget

Mr. M. St. J. Walsh.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

arranged marriage Lieutenant Robert S.

P.P.C.

at ali Souls Church, await the permission of permanent States increasing during the same Langham Place, Tandon, on

officials at Home. Saturday, 11th June, at 11 am.

DEATH.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932,

THE SHING MUN DELAYS

America's Shattered Beliefs,

pean

were

two of

You

Pour Golfer: You're a fuc caddie. I thought I hired you.

to hunt balla when they went off the fairway.

Caddie: You did that--but f we're

miatakan, both thought you came out here to play golf. O D

Have you seen the brown surf

lads at Sydney? Or the Waikiki bench boys 80

tanned?

The worst of these dress ex-

to perts that they have de- signs on other men's wives.

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'A reader con- plains that the only time water doesn't come in- to his house is when he turns the tap on.

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The Old Country has now to contend with the World, the Flesh, and Neville!

DO New Definition:-A popular melody is one that becomes 80

Or the type of a similar kidney on Hongkong's That parades

silver strand? Each torso a glistening model, much in demand that everybody Ax wrought out of copper or detests it.

bronze:

And more so when absence of

wnddle

you weigh Adds points which

pros and cons.

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A contemporary suggests that pli water buckets should be pum- bered in a day. Each should be clearly marked with its cubic

I see that in England a writer Refers to these beaus from the capacity, not inre, and equipped

East;

And doubtless someone

- recite a

with a self-mensuring device in

will order to really clarify the issue.

Sonnet to those who wear least. The Army has some good ex-

amples

pinned;

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Canadian farmors are to visit

England this summer. It is anti-

of faith in the sunshine well, cipated that there will be an ex- change of seasonable grumblings, ᄆᄆ

Though I'd hate to refer to such

samples,

As "Types of the East" quite

thick skinned!

--CYN.

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"The men engaged in, the illicit whisky trade are crafty people," says an American official. Distil waters run deep.

០ ០ in the spring a young man's

out an also ran.

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perled 338 per cent. The anme exaggerated increases in taxation have taken place in the State and In 1915 the loent Governments. F. Late of the DE BIERE, S.

it 18. year Chinese Maritime Custome Ser. A year ago one of the features Budget of New York City was vice, at the Mathilda Hospital. of life in America under the Sign $198,980,786. This

In 1915 the city The funeral will pass the Monu of Depression most striking to a $631,366,297. ment at 4 p.m. today.

foreign observer was that the old population was 5,047,221. Last its present loyalties and beliefs had hardly year's census showed been shaken. There was still an population to be 6,930,446. There abiding faith in the ability of was a 37 per cent. increase, in America's business. men to guide population and a 217 per cent in-Į

safe crease in expenditure. While gov the national economy into channels once again. The priva-ernment has been growing increas- tions which were suffered by manyingly expensive it has grown in- creasingly futile and can no longer sections of the community not explained in terms of Euro-perform the first cssential of gov Socialism. The doctrine, grament-protect ita citizens. The quaint to European ears, that if a kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, should which drove even the Far Eastern man was poor his action logically take the form of creating crisis off the front pages, was no Sir Henry Pollock's speech in the

now wealth for himself instead of isolated ease. It merely drew at- Legislative Council on Thursday, seeking to secure a share of the tention to existing conditions ow urging pressure on the Home Gov-wealth of the man who had already lug to the fame of the principale, the increasing daring and Impud- ernment for sanction to commence created it was still believed, at and drew attention, moreover, to laney is either acratched or turns the second section of the Shing Mun present, the picture is no longer ence of the underworld. An out-

The depression has at lust law Government might almost be A gambling house was blown up scheme, by no manner of means re-true. presents his first effort to get this shaken the faith of the American Haid to have constituted itself and in Chicago. One player had just the project under way. Indeed, toeltizen. There is no question of

legal Government. gether with the other Unofficials, American becoming Socialist, but to be operating in defiance of the remarked that the sky was heard he has plugged away at the subject there has been far more time and again, but without the recently in public speeches and in least satisfaction having been ob- the Press of doctrines which have flavour. strongly Socialistic tained. It is not an easy task to place the blame for the delay in the More especially has this been true proper quarter. The fact is well of debates in Congress over the known, however, that, had certain Warious proposals made to balance" the Budget The talk was a good P.W.D. had their officers of the

deal more revolutionary than the wel- way, the work would have been commenced long ere this. There action, but the action was have been suggestions made, incomed by many speakers as a step towards breaking up the concen Council, too, that opinions in Gov-tration of wealth in the country; ernment circles at one time were in other words, not as revenue but divided on the matter. There is

as a social measure. Had any of probably some truth in this story, the great figures of industry or for we do know that, for reasons

finance been sitting in the gal connected neither with the engineer-leries while Congress was voting the wealthy ing aspects of the scheme or the heavier taxes Du financing of the project, there was classes they would have felt die- for some considerable time a mark-tinctly uncomfortable at the ten- ed disinclination on the part of the or of some of the speeches. The Government to carry out the scheme speakers may not have meant what as originally intended. The result they anid, but the important point was, without question, a serious in that they evidently felt that the kind of thing they said would be waste of valuable time.

But whatever may have happened popular with the ordinary

man

In the past, it is only fair to put upon whose votes they had to rely on record the fact that the Govern- for re-election. The old gods ment has for some time past, long were held up to ridicule not only before the present crisis, been seek in the House but in the Senate. per-The supermen, when faced with a ing to obtain the necessary mission from the Home authorities crista, have shown themselves jost to proceed with the second sectionus bewildered and puzzled as mon of the scheme. Indeed, it has been of ordinary clay. Ordinary men able to show not only that the pro-begin to wonder whether the ject is feasible from an engineering supermen created the new order or point of view, but that there is no whether the new order created questioning the Colony's ability to them. The unofficial letters of the in popular finance it. That being the case, it country have fallen

limit.

"Go ahead, start something and see what happens to you.”

According to a news item, a German farmer recently drank thirty-seven mugs of beer in sue- cession. This takes a lot of awnl- lowing.

Some of the suggestions made for controlling the water-queues are quite dippy!

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We are still surprised that no- one hit on the slogan: "Marry in haste and bath together."

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Many broadcasters give their ser-

vices free of charge. For the love of Mike!

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A Harley Street doctor says in- digestion is a memento of over-ent-

A kind of keeps-ache! ing.

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Amongst the people who aren't articularly interested in the bicch- tenary of the birth of George Washington are

anglers, golfers, vegetable marrow-growers, weather forecasters, film publicity agents, seed packet designers, and house agents.

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It has been discovered that there are more telephones in a modern British hotel than there are in the entire city of Odesa, Wo dure say that Odessans get their fun some other way.

A gas meter is an.

instrument

which seems to record therminolo- gical inexactitudes.

The health bulletin for Eastern porta for the wook ended the 14 inst shows the following cases of infecti- deaths thero- ous diseases and the from-Plague, Alexandria 2 cases 2 deaths, Hombay 2 cases 2 deaths, Colombo 3 cases 1 death. Cholera, death, Shang- Saigon Cholou 1 caso

Bmall-pox, hal 11 cases. 1 death. Alexandria 1 case, Bombay 12 caser 4 deaths, Karachi 5 cases 2 deaths, Mudras 10 canes 4 donths, Rangoon 2 20 cases 11 deaths, Chittagong cases 1 death, Saigon-Cholon, 8 cases 1 death, Canton 9 cases, Bhangbai 0 casca & deaths, Kobo 1 caso. Cerebro- Spinal Fover, Hacenser 1 caso, Macao 1 case 1 donth.