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Damage amounting to $100,000 Kiukiang, Oct, 31. has come: at Tas, to Hongkong, it than Me. Doswel, sid them over the trackes eae! off Colenal, Goverment. as and the deaths of five persona were does not seems to' have made much The Age of Extravagance approached the Home authorities Caused: byabig. fire which suddenly difference to the routine life of the European community. One hears ecadings was not s0 much the issue, The interesting part of the pro-made us think the adventurers the. golden. age, tales "of Bravery for a reduction of the military con-troke out before dawn at the heart tribution, according to the Chinese of Nanchang city on. the 20th, role. Alas! there is very litle that of salary "cuts" and of reductions Press, It is said that the Secretary carding to news reached here last fof staff, but there seems to be just Sut the wider considerations con-hin of what. was once m beautiful fevherofe about Sfeeao to-day. The as many people at the races, on the Corning the immediate outlook as re-lof State for the Colonies is eonsider-"fu fire which was 80 cathedral" seme to symbolism the golf courses, and at, other places Yealed by those who ought to know, 'Mu rested Iya actor sintod be: fum of great endeavours, Tt has Mthere there' are facilities for re-There can be mo doubt whatever Haeia'lake Ts the centre of the chy Sften been said that the rite of Creation, it is said that the new that in stormy weather it is wise to kong are estimated at 20 of the revenue of the Colony. Suting the small hours before awh Shorten sail; it is evident that the Hongkong caused the decay generation spend money whereas Would be easier to balance the bud~ Ciena ess in the factory ant al trade barometer is not set at Macao. The deep sea harbour of the we'tne neighbouring. shops hele predecessors saved more eared it," nor is there much former, and the pure water supply get if the military contribution were fully," Perhaps there ig a general auch feeling that, nowadays, life fs quite ralableor ceed going his, gave Houses were june enjoying the Best Seereased, as revenue has fallen off fon account of unfavourable trade thei sep, was seen Hy @ police advantages or ever Possessed. But that is not the whole England. "So why retire. carly pleasant In' Hongkong as "in returns. In. consideration of this Shanon, dty, ina mensby sare: beginning to realise Rhat Me. Mic-INST over the world people are now Efory. There ave laws of Nature that factor, the Hongkong Government TAY than signal fore cmengeney Life? 'The post-war roads, electri Mes inumelinlyralned, "Owing does not introduce new taxation for The delay "in the arrival "of Bee houses all help to make more pleas bpm de at least one very wie the. present fiscal year. eaeiea' tne "ae apioly developed ant conditions than those endured Tommark, Tt was not sufficiently heed remark Hn years hat followed the Thevitably punished im time, Natore 'Chinese residents are unsuccessful Frees trous condagration and by the early' pioneers.
Shd"ot the World War. That enter-Mis ne tee for the weak, only the stably. punished in time. Nat in petitioning the water authorities wih breeze ie quickly worked ies fora reduction of water rates. The During the last two decades many Moe character it fection, fittest survive.
Water Works is not making money, Shay into neehbooring Sulina. more people have become believers the benefit to health of physical Mica Charles Dickens, Te sta the, arm the fans and funds are required for the con-"Ever riemly five hare hard 'The Shumehun Dificulty Atruction of the big Shing' Mun Was nally brought under contri, by dozens of fire squads, the fire exercise. A far greater proportion fen $f man Nad-an income 'There are Chinese in Hongkong Once this reservoir 'po firemen, had' almost, exhausted of the European women play golf Sha a man spent 0. Te, Od. who deplore the garish temptations ix completed, Hongkong will a} for tennis. Chinese girls, as well the result. was. happiness; ut if at Shumehun, They relate cases of have sufficient water {o last through their boy friends, now follow the women who, in the gambling craze, example of Europeans in. thi eter te spent 200 8,2 per the dey season without resorting to woweyr dhe result was misery. It i have wrecked their own lives and matter of active recreation, Swim-annum Ciatement-rexcepe that reduced their children to poverty. curtailed suppl Petitions to the authorities by the Considerable Damage ming and -daneing are both much thay not apply to rogues. But many more popular than even ten years may core ates Mcaorbor made Me ago.
Pemlarks we had a_proverD wont of the Kunnglumg ofelae 20 that they uMoUF says promoters pay dear to suegRent a remedy Chinese merchants for relief in the Inter found that 59 houses present slump are frequent occur and shops. were completely destroy Fences, "The. latest move may be allowed to carry on. Tt is, A New Sports Club lobe oak of danger" in the English ed, and the Toss thus sustained was thatthe "Chinese Government fmgunge. Anglo-Saxons and other* of course, embarrassing for the in the hinterland is asked oF the wide estimated around $100,000, Becaut One of the signs of the times is long ster tie world—in the spend-Hongkong authorit mut, there and rapid spread 4 the Work now being carried out on Tale Nineteen twenties ignored that seems to be no inn solution. not to impose fall customs duty on the fire coupled with the extreme Chinese medicine imported from the mainland, on the road to Castle Peak, Reclamation will provide ten-Muccgrgre An we are PYE "At present there are only mat-disorder and darkness of the mor Hongkong to various places in etpenalty today. sheds." but in course of time, if ting hours, ninety per cent. of the nis courts near to a bathing bea Qhrauthor, named Bridges, has stability of tenure is assured, more Chinese drugs were collected in Kyrangtung. it is argued thatthe goods in the shops and. valuable where a club house is in course of dotted he' own feelings when Substantial buildings 7 things in the houses "could not, be erection. Tt is said that a race-course diet with creditors. He related China proper but were merely dried But, perhaps after all, the scheme removed and were, therefore, comities for golf will also be osset sence ovsprows & beacon to the Unstable, Suddenly the Kwang and prepared in Hongkong. pletely reduced to ashes, The Chinese authorities take a provided. The club will have an ins Ckbughlese ones. who. are. Tikely, tung authorities may decide to de-Extremely frightened "by the me different view and declare that Ternational membership.
Pent fute the same gulf His it~ clare gambling illegal. Tu. Canton creasing rage of the fire which Golf has become very much more Cats fs too jong, to quote in fol, whatever comes from Hongkong are there are, in theory at any rate, quickly' spread to the: surrounding popular in recent yenrs, The Fan. ling courses—there are 45 holes out Stone eetence neons, fre strict. Government regulations con-imports. Since the Chinese drugs houses which wame built on the
there—ave crowded at week-ends in careless about "chits"——that debt is Mind youtkeand youth to so, eft cerning such recreations as are now are. prepared in this Colony, the overlooking the lake, more than 1 offered at Shumehun, not far from goods are considered as imports, and people, men and women, young and the winter. There is a waiting list langerour and indeed even worse
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