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DAY BY DAY

STUDY IS TIME FERTILIBING AGENT, MOST FRUITFUL OF SOILS MUST 500N WITHOUT WHICH THE RICHEST AND

| DECOME STERILE.—Von Soboelekar.

During the twenty four hours and. ed on Tuesday, one enso of meningitis was reported to the Medical Ofteer of Health.

The Rev. E. A. Allen, M.A., Ph.D., in to give a lecture on China at the Cross Roads" In the Union Assembly Room of the Hongkong University at 8.30 pm. on Sunday, 8th instant.

GENERAL SHRINKAGE The World Through Disillusioned Eves INSTEIN and those people that scenery, besides having under- who have discovered that gone a shrinkage, bna resolved it- time and space are one did pretty solf into a serica of oleographic

left to me well for ploneers but it has been views. Have you noticed it? It demonstrate an ex-la, I fancy, due to the picture post- tension of their theory which they card and the illustrated magazine. never dreamt of. Pormit me to The most magnificent "aspect" I place before you the hypothesis know is a room with plenty of that as time proceeds space grows deep chaire and big cheaterfelds, where one doesn't get too much less-astonishingly less."

some

rlak that the Straits Settlements may be looked at askanco by the rest of the Empire If, for selfsh reasons, they refuse to conform with Imperial trade polley. It would appear, however, that busi- ness men do not share these views, since the Chairman of the Straits Settlements Chamber of Com- morto has pointed out that if the F.M.S. wish to give a preferenco to certain Empire goods, that pre-

It certainly docs, because places light. The mountains of uphols I used to know well as vast and tery can beat the Grampians hollow ference should not undergo any change merely because the goods

spacious spots have been boiled any day, and a good Turkey carpet down by time to midget models of is a most successful substitute for concerned rest for a while in the

their former selves. For example damp grass or soaking heather. call it Auch- Besides you can't carry syphons Colony en route to final destina-

there was--let us tortobit.

for hot muffins or loo or other tion.

Auchtertobit, Goods, it is pointed out,

fory-ave things that really matter / about years ago, was a place of limit with you in a car or a charabanc. enter the F.M.S, in order to be

Lotters of administration to the able size, vast, spacious. It lay And don't you bellove that tabacco consumed or used, there being estato of Lu Kim-nuf, a married near Wastertobit and between them tastes better on a moor. It doesn't SYNCRO-MESH

practically nó re-export; whereas

woman, late of Hui Chuen, Kut Shui stretched a road at least a milo although it's curtainly useful for Village, have been granted to Hui long, ending in a lofty bridge. A keeping off the filles, DE-LUXE SPORTS | the Straits Settlements is merely Wing-put of 109, Lok Street Hong-church stood dim and afar in wide In short, the further time pro-

a large transit market, and any

kong.

meadows and was flanked by a ceeds in its passage the more la restrictions placed on this ex-

dense and shadowy orchard. Over the poverty of the land revealed. change trade would have adverse between Sergt. Charles Honry Naylor, dous height reared its

The wedding will shortly take place all a pine-clad mountain of stupon- Most things assume miscroscopic heaven proportions. Books? Pooh-pooh! One has discovered that the present effects and tend to drive it away. of the 1st Batt. Lincolnshire Re-nspiring mass.

giment, in camp Shamshuipo, and Well, you should just see Auch- phase of time, the Liliputian phase, There is one remark made by Miss Ruth Hunter Beesley, a school tortobit now. The road between is incapable of producing books of | the Chairman of the Straits teacher, of 02, Peking Road, Shang-it and Westortobit has shrunk so any tolerable kind-and poetry

Settlementa Chamber which ap-

amazingly that I could cover its has shrunk too. You dare not send length in a hop-skip-and jump, the it to the wash or pass it through plies with equal force to Hong-

Passengers who left for the Northbridge has become a thing of toy-the literary mangle. The stars kong, namely, that a policy of com to-day by the Chichibu Maru Included, like proportious, the church door appear as mere pin-points, the sun Mr. R. E. Coxon, Mr. J. F. Wright, almost hits the bedge-line; the is a sovereign, "and the moon 靄 plete freedom of the port, except Mr. L. Kadoorie, Mr. C. S. Gubbay, orchard is a dwarf affair of some florin piece. for the control necessary to col | Mr. D. M. Maynard, Mr. and Mrs. dozen scraggy trees closely ream- Only one thing remains "fa- lect revenue from the limited. J. Lacon, Mrs. Leach, and Mtn. bling large rosu-bushes and the size," as we used to say Itomance!

mountain has become a mole-hill. And that is of the Titan past and. range of imports now affected, has

Mere Toys Now.

(not of this age of the mice and the been of the greatest assistance in building up the commercial impor- tance and prosperity of the Colony. "We shall not increase the prosperity of the Empire as a whole," said this speaker, “by adopting measures which will react unfavourably on this small corner of it-particularly when this small corner secures trade which would otherwise go through foreign channels." That is Hong- kong's case also, and we therefore

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Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932.

OTTAWA AND THE CROWN COLONIES

was

Jat.

Ollerton.

the

Leung Pui-cho, a woman aged 23

If you want further proof, look frogs, with its little clockwork cars years, of 125, Kilung Street, was at Podie Ferry. Podle Ferry used and its gnomolsh politics.. admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital, to boast of some of the largest I shall return to the country of yesterday suffering from polsoning as manalons in Scotland

In Romance with its mighty forests, a result of an overdose of dermoline, Europo, I mean. Its main street its soaring hulghts, Ite unearthly commit suicide. taken, it is believed, in an attempt to was comparable to the Champs-sunsets and limitable star-spun

Elysees or Pennsylvania Avenue. nights, for, after all, it is Now you would think these man-only country where I ever found sions had been fished out of a Ger-space to breathe, silence to dream man toy-box. If you speak at the in, and the opportunity for the church end of the street in an or kind of action I crave.

The old airplane is still in work- dinary domestic voice, they hear what you are saying at the station ing order. Farewell Lilliput- end and look at you darkly for Lewis Spence. committing a breach of the peace. |----

Shrink! Why, sir, the Gram-

In the estate of Leung Lal-haug, retired merchant, late of Fatahan, who died at 71, Jervois Street, Hong kong, which is valued at $15,000, lettern of administration have been granted to Yeung Ho-shi, Tin Long, Young Li-shi, and other next of kin,

A raid was carried out by Revenue plans are shrinking. I know they FULL TEAM WANTED

A celebration of the Chinese Na-

By Edward Kelly, Guolis, Pretty crock teams they've pick-

Officers at 2, Kau Yu Fong last even-are, for I any them only last week. do not expect that the Ottawa de-ing and a woman occupant was These hills are not what they cisions will involve us in any

arrested in possession of 163 taels of were. The River Tay has become raw oplum. She was fined $5,000 on a burn, and the Earn a puddle. changes which will seriously in- her appearance before Mr. Schofield What are we going to do about With the time rapidly approach terfere with the free status of

at the Central Police Court this it? If the country goes shrink-cd for the opening of the rugby ing in which legislation will be the port, on

morning.

ing at this rate-about a rood, football season in Hongkong. which our past

forwards, introduced in various parts of the growth has been built and on

pole, or pearch in a year, accord- Not counting the The Royal Observatory reports thating to my reckoning-It'll soon be there are only nine and three- Empire to implement the Ottawa which our future prosperity de- the anticyclone remains stationary a case of standing-room only. I eighths men in both teams. Conference decisions, the question pends.

over North China. The depression is believe, furthermore, or at least Count it for yourself there's nituated to the cast of Hokkaido. suspect, that Edinburgh a four wing three-quarters, four as to what the various Crown

Moderate to fresh monsoon will pre-shrinking in the same way, and centre three-quarters, three five- Colonies will do in the matter

vail along the China Coast and over recently I have had grave doubts eighths, and three halves. the Northern China Sea. Local fore-respecting Glasgow. George Square We have read all the daily newn- must soon be decided. It is not

Farmers and floover

cast N.E. winds, fresh; fair. is certainly less by an acre or so papers, and we find that there are to be expected that there will be

than it was in 1896.

two hooker forwards, four front- The recent farmers' strike in uniform decisions, since the cir- Iowa

Yet some localities appear to ex-row forwards, four second-row and Phallenge to the cumstances of the several Colonies leadership of the United States, a

tional Day on the 10th. Inst., at the tend themselves, and I must per-two back-row forwards. What Hotel Cecil, will be held by Wah Tai force regard these as exceptions they're doing about the dress cir Fare by no means identical. Some demand for adequate considera- College, whicle was started last Sep. to my theory. For this phone-cle is not disclosed.

of them are producers, and others, tion of their problems. They are

tember, at 9, Arbuthnot Road, by Mr.menon I can offer no acceptable ex-

We discover that the "back Lui Sun-iu, B.Sc., formerly head-planation. Thus the Mound has

row" are described as "loose such as Hongkong and the Straits a sturdy, independent lot, ready to

master of Wai Yan College. The certainly grown longer and steeper, forwards." This seems wrong Settlements, little other than disfight for what their own. They programme will consist of a Chinese and the Canongate rise has lofted

will not submit to wholesale dis-

to us. If you are forward you sketch and an English comedy en- tributors. Tariffs in the one case possession either by tax sales or

titled "The Pig and, the Monkey," itself out of all proportion to fta

can't be in the back. If you're may be justifled, whereas, broadly foreclosures.

both produced by the students. In fornier elevation.

loose, you must be forward. They believe that addition, there will be Chinese music, Of course people have

Then the teams will have full speaking, they would be very their unhappy situation is the re-

Chinese boxing, and conjuring. The shrunk, many of them very badly celebration la timed to start at 2.30 and so have doors and tenta and back and half backs, the 'half largely valueless, if not, indeed,sult of human blundering rather

caravans. And something has also backs being only half as full as injurious, in the other, Ports than of economic necessity. They

happened to food when eaten al the full backs. There Bro no which have been built up on a

fresco. It used to be inspiring buckless players in the teams, it to have ten in basis of the free exchange of goods would naturally fear the effects of a change of policy which interfered with traditional cua-

tom,

President

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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

London Terminals. March 1933 6/1 up 1d. May 1933 6/33⁄41⁄4 up 1%d. August 1933 6/6% up 3⁄41⁄4d. December 1933 6/9% up 2d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d more.

Now York Terminals.

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Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 1.15 no

also

garden or on a scems.

hillside. Now, I can assure you, Wo understand that one player it's only bonatly, sticky, and nasty. is slow, but clever. In one of the Tents, too, nppear as hidy holes teama we hope to see a player who for the depraved and the barbarova is clever, but alow.

and caravans are merely perl- We can then sit and watch one patetic houses of slavery, where lad being cleverly slow at one end misguided folk are doomed to the of the field, while at the other the did one ever relish auch squalor to be sure?

Not What It Was.

Another discovery of mine is

We gather that football this season will be a “big draw." We hope not. We'd like to sce one side win.

have violently reacted against the present administration and are swinging towards the Democrats, on the principle that any group must be better than the existing lot. And President Hoover, quick to observe the danger, pays a visit The situation ns It affects the

The following cable at the close to Des Moines, promises the farm-of the sugar market yesterday continual peeling of potatoes. How second lad is being slowly clever. Straits Settlements is now the ers everything, tells them

of has been received by Messrs. Pen- subject of considerable contro- worse perils that he has saved treath and Co. versy, following a speech in the them from, and then, finally, out- Legislative Council by Sir Cecil lines a policy on war debts which would inflict a serious pain in the Clementi, in which he hinted at

neck upon anyone with an elemen- the possibility that the freedom tary knowledge of economic laws.. of the ports of Singapore, Penang The features of and Malacca may have to be sacri- Hoover's plan are the exaction of fced. It must be remembered that the war debts and the use of the the position is rendered somewhat money in expanding Amerien's complicated from the fact that markets among her impoverished whilst the Straits Settlements still debtors. We do not know how far adheres to its free port status, the farmers as a reason for changing these proposals will Impress the Federated Malay States have al their mind about voting Demo- ready adapted tariffs. The fear crat, but we trust that the spoken has therefore been expressed that word sounded more convincing as British goods imported under pre-a solution of the farmers' trouble ferential agreements Into the than the cabled version. Many Malay States may in future avoid thousands have already lost their Paris the ports of the Straita Sottle-thousands cannot meet their taxes Helsingfors.

farms through foreclosure. Other Geneva..

monts, because if bulk is broken

And their interest payments. Onla: in the latter, preference would be Tenant farmers cannot pay their Athens. hoạt. Sir Cecil Clementi has, in- rent, and in many cases hard-

Milan.... Buenos Aires deed, raised the query whether the pressed landlords cannot give Shanghai | freedom of the ports of Singapore, them any relief. The present New York.

Amsterdam. Penang and Malaces, curtailed level of farm prices cannot carry lenna. and hampered as it is bound to be the load of farm taxes and debt Prague. with any considerable purchasing | Madrid. by the Protectionist policy of the

power left over. Agriculture, Hongkong. British Empire, would really in having curtailed its purchasing Brassels. the long run be more profitable to power to the serious detriment of Stockholm.

Copenhagen the Colony than solidarity of com- industry, is now nearing the end Llibon mercial policy with the British of its capital resources: The Rio Empire and free trade within the farmers' strike was not important Bombay Malay Peninsula. Sir' Cocil ovt-in itself. But there will be others dently thinks that uniformity of and still others, with accompany. ing political unrest, until the policy is desirable, and he points causo is removed, and it will not to what he describes as a real be by the Hoover war debts method,

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