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FAULTLESS-GEAR-CHANGE ACCELERATION-PLUS COMFORT

was operated that she was com pelled to go off gold. She will be careful not to come back until there is some definite assuranco of a willingness on the part of plote harmony and co-operation. An Unparalleled Constitution

JEALOUS HUSBANDS

Bulls and

Inners

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By EDWIN BRISTOWE.

The official floor space for each We sco that Mr. Montagub Nor- Most contracts involve a single pupil in attendance in Hongkong man is to be married. He'll now straight-forward issue between two schools is being restored to eight need to be a greater Enancial partios. Jones contracts to build feet, instead of seven feet, which wizard than over, a good bridge, Brown contracts to has pravalled since 1925. This pay a good £10,000 for it. All should allow the younger genera- Jones has to do is to scrape tion to get about more.

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When the King puts his together $10,000

The two parties are in no way signaturo to the now constitu-concerned with each other's busin Talking about the "Romance, of tional bill for India, he will be ess, provided, of course, the bridge Wirelona," one has to admit that

Not that wo. wish anyone any endorsing political emancipation does not collapse when Brown there's plenty of bustle about hama, but aa we see it, distressed for a sub-continent. In all the stamps 011 it. and provided wireless.

pationts from the other side of varied and colourful history of Brown's sovereigns stand the teat

the water need not look for gatlä- the British Empire there has of Jones's teeth.

anch A new dice game in Court the factory,conveyance until But with the marriage contract been no denouement so dramatic it is different. Harold contracta to other day settled the question time as Government officials take as this looming event, which will supply Svivin with the accessaries "When ia a shrimp not a fish?" up permanent residence in Kow see a group of races of diverse of lifea now hat every week and When it is turned.. religions, creeds, and outlooks a dance frock avery fortnight coming within the scope of a (with shoes and stockings to governmental system that has match)-and Sylvia contracts to

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loon and contract an infectious disease.

MacWhirter saya that gambling The Government Astronomer at

no parallel, either in the Orient well, to look pretty, shall we any, is sound economies, provided. you or the West. The closing of and to make a home fit for Harold win every time. the Indian Round Table Con-to live in.

But unfortunately it doesn't fcrence anw considerable pro-stop there. It is by no menna

These are hard

new post.

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Adelaide has discovered a comet

which has been lost for over 6O yours. Only a Civil Servant could afford to wait so long.

at all.

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A reader wants

to know whether

there le any truth in the" ru- mour that cork- ngo le soon to be charged at tho Kowloon Y.M.O.A,

According to report, the other greas recorded between Indian single straightforward lance day a lorry dashed into a wall und Britona regarding the Detailed explanations of minor which is now said to be in a dan-

Some wiybs quarrel at the fideration which is planned becauses in the contract aro domand-gorous condition. Enquiries re- slightest provocation, saya a tween British Indis and the In-ed long after the ecatract has been veal, however, that it is expected writer. And some don't need any

irregular. Sylvia co recover, dian. States: In the major signed-most questions of finance, defence, wants to know whether Harald WE WANT THIS CAR TO and commercial relations there supposes that she can buy a new bat with what was left over from BECOME KNOWN. JUST are still several points of dif- paying the baker, and Harold wants times. We read COME IN AND ASK US FOR Aference, but it is recognised that to know whether Syliva supposes of a pole-squatter the achievement of the con- that brown paper soaked in water who can't find a RUN. WE WON'T ANNOY YOU WITH SALES PRESSURE. that India's journey to self gay-two players watch each other like

ferenca has been so pronounce can fairly be called ox-tail soup.

There is a game in which the ernment has been appreciably cats so that they shall turn over Wo notice in a

The conference in their carda na simultaneously THE HONGKONG HOTEL shortened.

a Homo nowspaper reality was a committee charged they can. This game is called that the "Em- GARAGE.

with proparing a workable con- Snap, So is marriage-sometimes. press of Britain” of Harold's dinner will be ready on started out on stitution for a population

Previous the tick provided he gave Sylvla her voyage with 362,000,000 people. Conferences broadly outlined the parting kiss in the morning and 10,000 bottles of promised not to be detained at the Whitbread's beer aima of Indians and the vurposes office. Sylvia's allowance will be on board. The of the British Government re-doubled it for seven consecutive problem there garding India. But it was left days she can manage to keep quiet tore arisco - If to this conference which reat_breakfast.

XX allows 1 M.T. cently disbanded to bring gener-

And the contract per mile, What alitics down to realities. With-lo fulfilled bit by bit in the vast lahores? in its terms of reference the con-majority of cases more by luck

than good judgment. ference could not fall, for it was

But, unhappily, there is evidence The only exercise some people A bowl full of water, with a convened for the purpose of that in many cases (especially to-seem to got is jumping to conclu- reaching as much agreement as day) the contract has had to hesions and running up bills. possible on those questions torn up, not altogether by matual affenting Indian government dealre, but simply because poor

Stubbe Road

Happy Valley

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. Cheng Yip Shi wishes to axelt her very sincere and heart-felt thanks to all those members of the public, and especially those who have worked 80 very arilently to get up the Petition and made it a succesa.

The

So it goes on.

Hongkong Telegraph which previous conferences had Harold has failed in one parti

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933.

WAR DEBTS

a move.

Africa's New Rand?

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All this trouble might as easily have been avoided if Harold had had the sense to see that husbands

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BOSS:Miss Smith, you are

fired!

SECRETARY: have done nothing.

Why? I

BOSS: That is the reason.

well.

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A flirtation may be described

must be jealous, at least pre-as the temporary association of tend to be jealous, if they are to two lara.

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Talking about cruelty to chil- dren, what in the local Society go- Ing to do about the way they dress up the kid- dles for wedding photograph groups?

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goldfish and a silver watch in it,

is to be seen in a local stère. The goldfish, it is understood, aubalats on ticks,

☐ ☐ "Collapse After Lunch." This heading in a local newspaper re- ferred to those who use the willow as distinct from the club.

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Weck-End Weather:-Rain will

--an enthusiast. Now we know the

British egg producers object to unlimited importation of.

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meaning of friendly overtures.

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A Hongkong clerk says ho la kept busy all day dispatching ac- counts. A billposter.

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A carol-singer in a London gu- burb during Christmas took a harp round with him. The pessim- ist!

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The well-brought up child in not decided. Consequently the cular clause which he swears was Hongkong is generally the triumph question of failure could not not in the contract when he signed of nature over parents.

It. It was there all right, in vary arise, for where agreement was

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he didn't see it.

Love is a deception practised ed. It is true that agreement The words complained of seem upon the individual by the race. will require to be reached on to be inserted between the time- these issues, but the varied honoured lines (used, by the way,

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be confined to the N. S. E. and It is something to the good points of view have been set by happy couples word for word

The rising generation in Hong-W areas and intermediate dia- that at last the United States is down in black and white, and for the past eight hundred years) kong retires just about the time tricts. There is at present no in- getting down to the business of it will be left to the British to have and to hold, from this when the retiring generation rises. dication of ground frost in the China Sen, and after nightfall endeavouring to secure a final re- Government to make its final de.day forward, for better for worse," They cannot get together again

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invisibility will be mainly good. adjustment of the war debts pro-cisions from the facts now in its

all at once, because the document President possession. Indeed, the future of the contract is in shreds, and it doesn't know his wife till he mar- In some parts of Africa, a man blem. After both

口 ☐ Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt had of India's government now rests must be pleced together again bit rien her, And the same is true of Music is a valuable factor in in turn shown little disposition with the British Parliament. A by bit before they can read it practically every other country an ensuring international peace, says to give immediate attention to Parliamentary Joint Committee through properly. the question, there is now evid- is to be set up, to work within ence that both realise the ur-terms of reference to be outlined gency of the issues involvet. by the Cabinet. The function of There is, indeed, a definite deci- this committee will be to prepare sion to open negotiations with what will virtually become Britain right away. Britain is, parliamentary bill, containing the and long has been, ready to make the actual constitution in

She cannot, however, light of the recommendations of contemplate any continuation of the various conferences. payments on the present basis. That point was made perfectly clear when the December in- stalment whe paid. As Was

Despite the long statement plainly indicated, "the old re- gime interrupted by the Hoover issued on Thursday, there

many Britons who would feel moratorium can never 'be TC- vived." In effect, Britain made more comfortable about the the December payment under Kenya gold leases if the Colonial. protest, whilst at the same time Office were not so sure that it definitely asserting that this is doing everything for the best, would be the last on the basis of That kind of official nonchalance the existing agreement. There is so very often-a prelude to is no call at this juncture to go disagreeables. A new goldfield into the pros and cons of the is a subversive agency in all re- war debt controversy. The case spects. If the Kenya one reach- for revision has been stated in ca oven a tenth of the import- strong terms,

only by ance of the Rand, it will trans- British economists and states- form the whole conditions of life men, but by Americans also. over a wide region and, the The burden of these debts is, mutual relations of British set- without the least shadow of tler, Indian trader, and native. doubt, standing in the way of a Every step taken in view of auch solution of the world economic contingencies should be twice problem. There must be a radi- and thrice deliberate. It has cal revision if anything ap-been settled with remarkable ex- proaching a satisfactory ad-pedition that native landowners justment of that problem is to are to be ousted from the hold-! be attained. Conditions have inga secured to them by solemn They are to have so immensely changed since the Ordinance.

not

are

funding agreements were made compensation, of course, and, that there can be no question of "wherever it is possible," they continuing on the old basis.are to be settled on other land. Add to that fact the further Where that is not possible, what point that the debts themselves is the ex-agriculturist to do with are clogging up the whole his compensation, and how is he economic position, and the case to live when it is spent? His- for revision becomes all the tory in many parts of the world stronger. Mr. Hoover apparent prescribes these inquiries. The ly thinks that Britain's return Colonial Secretary says that the to the gold standard must be the natives have had the matter primary objective in attempting "explained" to them. The Na to restore the world's, economictive Commissioner confessed in equilibrium, but it has been the Logislature that the inter- made clear times without num-ference "will not be popular." ber that Britain will not tako Britain will be fortunate if it: that stop until there is the pros-goes no further than that. The pect of a proper working of the proceedings acarcely suggest the system. It was by reason of the serious thought and preparation manner in which the system that such a business demands.

Of course, there are jealous hus- bands, and, like all rare things, the they have to be, very carefully Danish eggs. Once again, Britain` handled. But man is a hunting acorns the foreign yolk. animal, and more often than not he has a job to control the hunting Instinct.

Last night, St. Patrick's Soceity Nevertheless, if he must go on held its annual meeting. Every- A golf competition was recently

(and hunting after ho's married

thing went off one, it being held in Elizabethan costume. All he's not much of a man if he does) understood that the first man who the competitors played in the ruff. the least he can do for his own alluded to politics would not be

ធ welfare is to guard the prey he allowed to play.

has already captured.

"My parents are such old darlingat I just coulda't tell

them I don't want any dolls this year."

There is an old belief that it is definitely unlucky for a man to kiss a red-haired girl just as his wilo enters the room.

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Some people think they are be- ing charitable when they are merely buying. five dollars' worth of a nice, generous, superior feel- ing.

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Alas for Communiam! If all Hongkong incomes wore lumped and equally divided, you'd get only about $89.00.

A local writer tells us of the time saving of aerial transport. We wonder if he has bean reading the cable news of Jato.

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Wo read that weight-lifting here must be confined to bona fido amateurs and residents, of Hongkong. That's right; wo`do our own tuft-hunting.

Kowloon chess players were de- termined to dine on the occasion of their annual presentation of prizes. Nothing like making the cop cheer.

Reports are requested, from local Hetoners regarding Empire [grogrammes, MacWhirter, saya

It's a thamò to make a man talk - [all the way from Daventry, when It is obvious that he's got influeg za and is suffering from a hoary cold Into the bargain.

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