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**THUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVIS."
Howowon, Monday, Nov. 17, 1819.
ADVERSARIA.
يستبعد
ROMEO AND JULIET.
was
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOGIL END GENERALN
To-day's dollar worth 4/8
A
Club will bold the fortnightly dance The Naval Dockyard Recreation this evening.
To-day's return of communicable disease says nil. As the First Form howler said, Ex Sic nil, sanitas fit."
baye slammed the window and love's labour would have been lost. All would have been over between them. Shakespeare knew nothing about women, or, at least, not enough. He 11/16d. Was An idealist, and Juliet
only
ад ideal WORDEN. Whoever came before the parson billiard handicap close on the 22nd Entries for the Palace Hotel with an ideal woman? None since Inst. » Adam, and they do say he was never properly married in church. But as this opens up an awkward doubt as to the legitimacy of us all, we'll let that hare sit.
We want to be quite THE MOON. fair to Shakespeare. He must have had some experience, for he made Romeo swear by the moon.
The moon always does come into such a per- formance. The whole darned.bus ness is lunacy. Is any lover sane? Is a man who sees pink rats sane Of course he's not. Then what's the difference between a plak rat and a pink girl? Merely that the girl is more real. As we said, we prefer realism. Mind you, however, she is never as. real as he thinks she is.. You never know the real woman until you marry her, and even then you don't. All you know is that the real woman isn't the ideal woman you thought she was, while the jimjams of true love and the influence of the moon was over you. Bat maskee that. Is
Romeo and Juliet" the ideal language of ideal love, that "Keith West" insists upon? Has it no banality? Just listen to that idiot Romeo:
Lady by yonder blessed moon
I swear,
That tips with silver all these
fruit-tree tops.
goods ex the as
Consignees are reminded that be subject to rent if not cleared by Kwaisang," will
the 19th inst.
Khan Sabib Hasham Khan left to-day by the "Gregory Apcar" on eight months leave, which he will spend in Northern India..
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There will be a dinner given by the Hongkong Church of England Men's Society at the Hongkong Hotel, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock.
papers that the Government is It is reported in the vernacular gradually selling out in large quanti ties the rice which they bought to carry out the rice scheme.
An informal dance will be held at the Peak Club sext Saturday night. Prof. Warren's lecture on "Lord Kelvin" will be given at the Helena May Institute to-day at 5.15 p.m.
MONDAYĮ, NOVEMBER 17, 1919.
JOE MANNIX IN TOWN. [A GRUESOME "DISCOVERY.
A MAN'S MAN.
SKELETON IN A WRECKED LAUNCE.
ARMS PROSECUTIONS.
The case in which a Chinese clerk in a local frm was charged with the unlawful possession of a
Mr. J. H. Gardiner was for the
Mr. Gardiner sild the house in
ver was found was not the house of the defendant. He could prove that the revolver belonged to his client's relative, who died in 1917. The box was unlocked, when the Police went.ə. to the house. He believed that the only possible procedure was that his client be discharged and the revolver be confiscated.
Our Editor has had the pleasure, Joe Mannix. Who's Joe Mannix? Itaunch is the harbour which was R. E. Lindsell this morning. the very real pleasure, of a call by While some men were salving a revolver was again heard before Mr. is sad, but quite natural, that they sunk during the great typhoon in should ask that, for Joe hasn't been 1906, they found a full-sized skeleton that Victoria had a Diamond Jubilee, launch. It was picked fairly clean, in Hongkong since 1397, the year in the forecastle of the wrecked defence. and the year that there was such and was sent to the Kowloon Mor which the box containing the revol- splendid dog-fight in front of tuary. On examination made it was Thomas's Hotel. Where's Thomas's found that the skeleton was that of Hotel? That's the worst of a trana man. It is naturally believed that sient population like ours. Nobody the man went down with the launch knows history, and nobody knows during the typhoon, and has stayed Joe Mannix. Yet he's worth know-down ever since. ing, well worth knowing. He wasn't Associate Editor, or anything like a Journalist, or an Editor, or an
that, but just A.
plain news- paperman, a first-class reporter. He says so himself. mere reporter.
Poch ! A Eleven matsbeds were completely the voice that breathes o'er Hong which occurred on Saturday after- Can't you hear destroyed as the result of a fire kong in that? But listen. You noon at Yaumati. It appeared that never had a taipan or a governor there were some blasting operations
His Worship: Do you believe the that was half the man Joe Mannix is going on in the government quarries circumstances were as stated? He's man's man from the top of his in Nathan Road and the matshed soul to the end of his vermiform which were ten yards away, are possible that it is true.
inspector Grant:-It is quite appendix. He's a philosopher, a supposed to have caught sparks which
The defendant was then discharg peripatetic philosopher, a bon viveur, caused the catbreak. The fames
•
A MATSHED FIRE.
ANOTHER PIRE.
Inspector Grant:-I shall ask for a small fine.
be confiscated..
A Chinese was charged with the unlawful possession of 1000 rounds of ammunition la Hollywood Road.
Mr. D. H. Blake appeared for him.
for membership of the Onion Club. Brigade arrived, the majority of the a good sort, and thoroughly eligible spread rapidly, and before the Fire ed and the revolver was ordered to And what is the Onion Cuba sheds were burnt down. The total Ah, that's another story. Watch damage is estimated at about $3,560. your China Mail for further informa tion. Intellect and savoir vivre ooze out of Joe Mannix like molasses out of sugar, and you can not be in his company ten minutes without wanting to follow him like a Pied Piper. He has enough dough to buy celibate happiness, and enough wanderlust and freedomlust to re- frain from hiring a Mrs. Mannix to
Is "fruit tree tops" not a banal]
All goods ex the ss. "Van phrase? We don't know of one if it Waerwijck" which are not taken isn't. "Fruit tree, tops
is as delivery of by 4 p.m. on the 19th help spend it. His hobby is the banal (from the "Keith West" inst. will be subject to rent. All world for to see and for to admire- point of view) as acid drops. Yet broken and chafed goods will be ex-something like our own vagrant he ands fault with our ingenuous amined at 10 am on the above date. young friend "Esanip." We simply must couch a lance for that well- The armouredcruiser" Euryalus" meaning poet. It (as we have Commander F. E. M. Garforth, which shown) he is no more banal than was in the dockyard as Hongkong Shakespeare, why lecture hit? Why when the armistice was signed, is (since we were inexact before) sees ordered to be paid off at Chatham to amend him? No, no. It shall and placed on the sale list. not pass. Esanip" for ever!
SHANGHAI AUTUMN RACE MEETING.
SATURDAY'S RESULTS.
The following were the results of the closing day of the Shanghai Autumn Race meeting. In the Nil Desperandum Cup, five furlongs, Bixshoote, ridden by Hill broke the previous records :-
Autumn Handicap.-Mile and a
quarter,
Messrs Toeg and Speelman's
Triumph, (Mr Knoll) 1 Mr Fash's The Nigger Minstrel (Mr Hill)
Messrs. Winsome and Hasty's The Corn-Crake (Mr Crokam)
Time:-2 mins., 40,45secs. Sub-Griffins Handicap-Mile and
quarter.
2
3
a
Tatir Street, Kowloon City, was on At 4.15 p.m. yesterday, a house in fire, being caused by an overheated stove which was setting fire to some quantities of straw. The damage is put at abour $300.
LAUNCH AT TAIKOO.
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The "War Bugler" was launched Tom Wright, only more so. (The at 4.45 p.m. on Saturday from the two scallywags haven't met yet) building yard of the Taikoo Dock- Wright really is respectable but yard and Engineering Company, the doesn't look it. Mannix looks it, naming ceremony being gracefully and isn't, for he travels in tramp vessel commenced to move down performed by Mrs. Reid as the steamers or any old way, and doesn't the ways. care where he goes so long as it is elsewhere. He is tremendously struck
This vessel is the third of the 8,000 with the growth of Hongkong and being built by the Company to the ton deadweight standard steamers Kowloon, as everybody is who comes back after long absence, and he is order of the Ministry of Shipping. having a good look see. He is an still on the stocks and will be launch Another vessel of the same type is Amurrican from A-murrica, superfied shortly. cially, but just as Shakespeare was Englishman and cosmopolitan too, so
The British Kowloon School sports will be held on the Kowloon Cricket Club Ground next Friday, Sir Reginald Stubbs will attend and all members of the Club are asked to be present to welcome the first Joe Mannix, is a mundane man at appearance of the new Governor at
the K.C.C.
Bath the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals are now provided with iron beds for their patients. It is said that of 500 iron beds recently arrived in the Colony the Kwong Wah Hospital has 200. The Chinese Hospitals are now getting more and more up to-date and the Directors are to be congratulated.
home anywhere so long as the com- pany is nearly human. We wish him a pleasant visit.
He thinks the China Mall is as
early galvanic as he ever expected any Hongkong paper to be.
THE FRAWLEY FOLK.
ACTRESS GUY: THE AUDIENCE.
the
CARGO BOAT ATTACKED
BY PIRATES.
fendant was seen in Hollywood Road Inspector Brazil stated that the de- yesterday by a constable, who stop- ped and searched the rattan bag he was carrying. Boxes of ammunition were discovered. Defendant, was, then brought to the station, but he refused to give information of how the got them. His friend went up later with $500 to ball him out, but $1,000 was asked.
Mr. Blake asked for a remand, which was granted, under bail of $750. A sampan woman was met by a yesterday, who on being searched Chinese constable in Jervois Street had four boxes containing 200 rounds of ammunition in her pockets. She being asked if she had any ammuni- was brought
the Station and on tion, produced one of the boxes. she was instructed by a Defendant, this morning said that
take the boxes to a lane to wait for him She was given $2 but she did not know what the boxes were.
man to
His Worship-But why did, you produce the box, if you really did not know?
On Saturday afternoon, a daring Defendant I know nothing about piracy took place near Taipo, when a ammunition and when I was asked cargo boat was attacked by six I simply thought the boxes contained pirates. The junk, was sailing to some of them, and so I brought a wards Kongmoon with a cargo of box out..
made.
KINEMA NOTES.
LARCENY AT POLICE STATION.
A coolie at the Central Police Station was charged before Mr. Lindsell this morning with the larceny of a quantity of government note paper from the Telephone
salt, rice and sugar, when a boat containing six men ordered it to stop. $100 and confiscated the ammunition. His Worship imposed a Ene of We suppose he would
The master of the junk obeyed. As admit Romeo and
500д as he dropped anchor, the Juliet as ideal lovers,
The fourteenth issue of the New
pirates boarded him, and ordered the and we know nothing.
Street Index, by Arthur Chapman,
crew to go into the hold. The junk in literature that is a bigger impos
Government Assessor, revised and
With "Parlour, Bedroom, and where the cargo on board was trans- was taken to an unknown place, tute. The balcony scene in Capu-
corrected up to date will be issued Bath" as the title of his plece, with ferred to their boat, which set sail to let's garden is camouflage from
about the end of November. The a reputation as good as Frawley's, King Hoi. The master and crew beginning to end. Romeo hás
Street Index is invaluable to Solicitors, and with Saturday as the night came up and found all the cargo been gaping at the lady's
Insurance Companies, Architects and chosen, any theatrical enterpriser has gone. No arrests have yet been window, as countless lovers have
Surveyors, Estate Agents, Property Hongkong on a string, and is sure of done (we've done it ourselves) until
Brokers, and all who are interested a good house, his fingers and toes feel like mori Mr Silex's Scesaplana
In Land and--House Property in the It was an American" farce, with bund fish and there's an annoying drop hanging from the tip of his Mr Risk's Co-Insurance
(Mr Wuilleumier) 1 Colony, Copies should be ordered snappy dialogue, in which nose. He stares up like a cat at a
early as the Edition is limited. Price author happily pulled the legs canary, when there's none there to Mr Meur's Young Alf
(Mr Crokam) 2 $20.00 per copy.
of the audience without their per- watch it, or it thinks there isn't.
ceiving it. Miss Beatrice Prentice is
Inspector Brazil said that the Would Romeo have said?
(Mr Burkill) 3
actually engaged to "guy" the audi-Alaskan lumber camp are being the last three years. He was leaving Realistic scenes of life in an defendant was employed there for Time-2 min., 13 3-5secs.
FOR FRANCE.
ence. She is a wealthy girl whose Griffin's Handicap.-Mile and a
vanity is tickled by the thought that depicted at the Coronet Kinema, the gate of the warders quarters quarter.
she has married a "fast" man with nightly, to the screening of a new when a constable met him. His Mr Fash's Dunera
HONGKONG'S EXTRA EFFORT past, and drawn him away from
drama-film entitled "The Come Worship: Why were you such a (Mr Hill) 1
countless other women who greatly lumber camp ourselves, many years steal? $20 or 14 days.
Back." We visited a North-west fool? You got a good job, why you Mr McBain's Golden Plume
Mrs. Basil Taylour began it. In the loves her, and is a clean, well that the local colour is not in any
desire him. The husband really Mr Robson's The Home Bird
(Mr Sleap) 2 days to come, when French people behaved man absolutely without
ago, and can assure Coronet patrons speak words of wondering admiration (Mr Burkill) Time-2 mins., 43 3-5secs. Mr. C.-C. Boyd's Springle The Grand National.
But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the
sun.
When ourcontributor POSTMORTEM "Keith West" de
ON ART. clined to be drawn into a postmortem on art." he grappled us to his soul with hooks of sreel From the jungle of phrases we how a loving greeting to our brother w. His terse retort was neat: His word picture of night on the Peak was as beautiful as the scene that evoked it. His facetious contributions stamp him as a priceless contributer who must on He would not. He would have no account be disgruntled. Neverthe cricked his neck worse than ever, less, relying on his sense of humour, and have though! (not spoken): "A and because our head happens to be last. Darling Juliet is going to take empty of any other thoughts, we are a peep at the night. Her night will going to challenge his remark about take a peep at her. Wonder if she'd realism, in connection with lovers be huffy if I spoke to her? I'll and the poetry of love. Certes all chance it."" true lovers are realists, and not a soul of them wishes to emulate "the ideal lover." He who, enamoured of his lady, finds time even to contemplate "the ideal lover" is no true lover. Love is a disease too desperate for theory, for technique. Tennyson's beautiful poem on the loss of his friend Hailam. "In Memoriam," has been a comfort to numbers of bereaved people; but the poet could not have compassed its technical neatness till his own grief was staled and diminished by time. Think it over. ...
WE
Life
اد
(Mr Boyd) You know that's Mr H. G. Robinson's Sans Peur exactly what would have happened. Shakespeare's highfalutin nonsense Mr E. B. Rose's Revenge
(Mr Bremner) is unnatural, impossible. Would any girl you ever knew,
even
3
way exaggerated. The plot is center.
YDOM.
about the warm sympathy and practi- experience of flirtatious or amused round the doings of a "tenderfoot" CENTENARY LITERATURY. cal generosity of Hongkong, let it be his deceit is that he is busy keeping tempered by the old, old love elment; adventures. The paradox of remembered that Mrs. Basi! Taylour
and bis contact with a "stuff" duly began it, and that the China Mail the deception, that he is a Don all of which makes the picture inter 1 helped her.
Juan, and still liable to leaveesting and engrossing. But that is Stamford Raffles, LL.D., FRS, In a comment on "Sir Thomas The thing has grown into a hand her for another. He writes hectic of course, nothing new so far as the Founder of Singapore." By J. A. some programme. It starts on Satur leve-letters to himself, and is assisted Coronet is concerned. The Coronet Bethune Cook, the Aberdeen Free by a more sophisticated friend (who is the home of good pictures, good Press says: Sir Stamford Raffles day with the special benefit Gymkhana.
wants to marry his wife's sister) to a
2
not
a3
which must ensure success.
THE
HONGKONG CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB.
GAEL, ONE DESIGN, AND HAY WARD HEYS CHAMPIONSHIP.
*
(Mr Hayes) 3The ponies will gallop to the rescue lurid reputation. This man circuit music and comfort for its patrons has a double title to fame. It was Manchu Stakes-Mile anda of devastated France, in the name of society whispers, and inspires a lady a Dago girl, stand at the open win. dow in her nighty and bleat "Ah me"? Mr Sutterle's Gulf Sand
quarter.
St. Andrew.
he who saw the great possibilities of More likely to say "Atishco", And
On December 1 (Monday Mile. H. Journalist to write scandalous tales
Singapore as a centre of trade and when George W. Romeo did screw Messrs. Winsome and Hasting's
(Mr Burkill) 1 Van der Flier, the lady ho was about him in a Society rag. This
Influence in the East, and by his up bis courage to say, in a choking
"written up" for the Chin Vail so lady (Miss Charlotte Fletcher) enter
wise action secured its possession The Hawinch guttural meant for a whisper,
(Mr Hill) 2 interestingly a week ago.
ed into the spirit of the thing ill show
for Britain. He was also the real Mr R. McGregor's The Red Coat That's good enough:
battle movies at the Thea Royal thoroughly, and had most of the
founder of the London Zoological (Mr Bremner) 3 and give us a talk about th. She torn with jealous fears that her You've said it, and I'm your own
fat." When the wife began to be
Gardens, The Settlement of Sing- Time-2 mins., 42 2-5secs.**** 1.ttle Romeo,
will talk for France. She h talked
apore (which up to that time Nil Desperandum Cup.-Five fur-about little else since her heart and
husband was. Got As black as
had been 2 Excuse me for butting in, darl-
miserable, village idngs.
her head were enlisted in the cause
he WAS painted.
of piratical Malay fishermen) is ing, I simply.couldn't help it, Mr C. Rapteyn's Bixshoote We believe in realism in (or words to that effect—we haven't
of devastated France.
wicked 23 she desired him
pronounced by Mr. Cook to be (Mr Hill) 1 BAR art, and don't care whoa good memory for these plays) it is
"the outstanding event in the Mr Fash's Nigger Minstrel
On December 19 (Friday there will to be, Miss Fletcher consented to be IDEALISM. knows it Realism with impost natural maiden.
be opened at Volunteer Headquarters caught with him in a compromising
whole history of the "Far East," in- (Mr Dalgleish) 2 (not on the Murray Parade Ground situation. Homer Parton as the in place on Saturday over an eight mile
The First Race of the series took asmuch as it shaped the entire sub- a touch of romance, of who had been king and even talk Mr B. Rapteyn's Kowloon course, because life without romanceing to herself aloud about that same
as previously stated) a
nocent-Lothario got the idea and course, Channel Rka (P) Kowloon Rk agriculture and industry, and the cabaret.
sequent course of skipping, commerce, would be worse than cold ham with young man, could fail to recognize
(Mr Brand) 3 "Some cabaret it is to be. It will put it across. The show was punc (P) Channel Rks (S) Cast Buoy (P) expansion of British influence from Time: 1 min., 14 2.5secs. out mustard.
Life without romance his voice, husky as it was, and
Griffins' Nil Desperandum.-Five You may drink tea there. You may giggles, snickers, and guffaws. It and a flood tide. The fine weather Japan. The man who was responsi
be held wide open from 3 to 7 p.m.
tuated throughout with laughs, There was a moderate Easterly wind the Straits of Malacca to China and is a lady with a wig and a wooden demand "What man art thou?"
furlongs. leg, whose figure is padded.
dance there. You may buy bargains was well mounted and well dressed, helped to make an enjoyable after ble for this great acquisition was a without romance is the number next
Mesars. Sky and Hickling's Leszek
there, and gamble at a "Tombola," the Frawley Company follows on
To-night, appropriately enough, noon's racing. Eight yachts started. remarkable character. He died at On second thoughts, above and next below the winning
(Mr Dalgleish) SECOND number of the lottery. Life with
however, women in Mr Kosmos's Popul, THOUGHTS. such cases have al
(Mr Seeting) 2 out romance is porridge without salt, and the China Mail without
ways been hypocrites. Sir E. Kadoorie's The Java Chief- Adversaria." (We share not the
(Mr Hill) 3 Time-1 min., 16 2-5secs. modesty of "Esanip.") Idealism, on
From 7 till12 midnighton that open- Consolation Cup-Mile and ating day there will be a masked ball, the other hand, is our black beast. Idealism is the "tantalus" decanter of alarm was also natural. They Mr F. S. Gibbings's Standard
at which light refreshments will be when the key is lost, and the thirsty always worry about some hypothe-
served. You will dance masked for friend is waiting. Idealism, as the tical
Dahlia, (Mr Dalgleish) 1 France, and you will unmask for person overlooking them. Messrs Winsome and Hasty's The the Americans say, is pank. If every Suppose somebody should see us"
France and the light refreshments. Bulbul man and woman in the world could is the realistic equivalent for "Messrs. Stephen and Burkill's
(Mr Hill) 2 None will say "Maskee France," for be made, a convinced realist to would not for the world they saw
that would stamp him utter brute. Bydand morrow, there would be no need for thee here." Another thing. Some
(Mr Wuilleumler) "3 Time: 2 mins., 42 3 5secs.
On a day not yet fixed Portuguesa idealism after midnight,to-night. Life where round about this stage of the Mafoos* Race,
ladies will have strect sales of pansies would suddenly appear follier than proceedings
also for France."Panay Day' ever. We suspect Keith West"-is sweet merchandise or something Golden Quill..................
Romeo called her Grey Sand...
1will be for France. a realist without knowing it. With like that. Anyway, he called her "Iron Duke... such a keen sense of humour he can merchandise. No respectable be nothing less.
It is possible that she knew he was there all the time, in which case, of course; she would naturally pretend she didn't recognize him. Her touch
quarter,
*-Dead heat.
young lady would stand that She'd Time-2 mins., 38 3-5secs.
1 for prizes presented by the Portuguese with "Scandal," but that is a differ community. And you will dance and eat thing, a Cosmo Hamilton piece gamble and drink tea for devastated of higher merit, which will give these France, for France who bled for
clever players wider scope. you.
2.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak is arranging for 2 a Chinese theatre also for France."
Read, think, and remember it is for France.
POLICE FOR HONGKONG.
MEDALISTS AND R. P. C. OFFICERS.
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forty-five but he had already been thirty years in the service of the country. His early education was limited, but he seized "every op portunity of improving his mental equipment, and became not only
а great linguist but ал Halcyon... 0.10.40 4.27.07 4,16.27.2 authority on several scientific sub- Ursula 0.16.4Q 4.26.12 4, 9,32 1ject He rose to high office in the Sirius 0.16.40 4.45.25 4.28.45 6 Eastern Government service, but he. Dawa 0.16.40 4.36.38 4.19.58 4 never lost his native simplicity, and Gael 8.17.36 4.45.37 428.01 5 was notable for his high and pure 0.17.36 4.50.12 4.32.36 8 faith. Mr. Cook gives us a sym Joan 0.17.56.4.36.38 4.19.02 3 public spirit and earnest religious 0.17.36 4.47.58 4.30.22 7 pathetic account of this hero and the work he accomplished in his short life, quoting largely from his letters, bosts are new friends, among whom was the fainons and giving us glimpses also of his them at Blaks missionary Dr. Morrison. It is an
interesting and edifying record.
There passed through the Colony Thecla this morning, per the s.s. "Laertes," Toinette... forty-one men from Home who are on their way to Shanghal to jola the Police Force there. Every man has a medal and some of them formerly held commissioned rank in the Royal Flying Corps.
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