New Lido for Repulse Bay: Departure of ARNS. Ken it for Refit Fuest Ore Owx Hongkong, Jan, 12.
The New. Year is off to a good start, nobvithstanding the gloomy Yorebodings of divers ravens who, finding no more promising battle fields, have hovered over the Colom for some time now. People still Yinger in the Hongkong Hotel and Gloucester House lounges, however, crowds throng the shops' annou ing sales. Whether they buy heavily or. not is a different matter, course. large gathering, which included as into the prose of the 17th century, and was not intended to be a detail study. He called this period the rudding "Age" of English litera-tare, because of the increased aval-lability of the flexible new language, and he - proceeded. to hol enjoyment a few choice At the February meeting, Sir Henry Pollock will address' the English Association on "The Poetry, of Kipling."
But there is no Inck of smart outfits in" Queen's Road and in Pedder Street. Some may be the result of strategy, it is true, and many a shop proprietress is bewailing the ericumstance that the There was a large attendance at the University of Hongkong resent-when degrees, were ea ferred cly.
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