Whatever the hospitality and how= over severe the drubbings received from the local sides by Shanghai's recent visitors to. Hongkong, seems really hard that the Island Colony should presume to tell Shanghailanders that the weather encountered there was "not usual at that time of the year." Shanghai has so long adopted that cliche for its own that use of it by other local metereologists seems to be a grave breach of copyright. Hongkong must surely know that, whenever a visitor to Shanghai ventures to praise the sunshine, inveigh against the cold, pour expletives on the heat or curse the pitiless rain here, he or she is invariably told by the Oldest In~ habitant of Bubbling Well that 'Shanghai is suddenly being afticted or blessed with unseasonable weather. In fact it seems to be a point of honour that the visitor should never really discover what' Shanghai's climate is Uke. This is written in grave disregard of the appalling Tapse of last summer; the less said about that the better. But since Hongkong—through the medium of this journal's veracious correspondent—is now adopting Shanghai' technique, reconsideration of the particular brand of weather wisdom {fo be handed out in future to Shang-nats visitors is surely desirable. Perhaps the Rickshaw Board might take the point into consideration when it finds that, thanks to the expert contract drafting of the Hongs, its original functions have become supererogalory.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.