The cold snap still continues, though the temperature haa risen during the last two days. Nevertheless it remains cold enough for one to 2 fire and to enable the youth of the colony to enjoy outdoor games and the fogeys to derive more benefit from golf and croquet. Cricket, football, hockey, etc, are greatly in vogue, and the bell of the festive "bike" is heard with little intermission along the Queen's Road from the Clock Tower eastwards from three p.m. to dark.
The shadow of Chinese New Year is already falling on the community and restricting business, Even the share market is becoming more or less lifeless under the deadening influence of the annual suspension of operations which marks these holidays, They full very early this year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.