RELIGION IN COURT.
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A LARGE AUDIENCE.
The China Mail is indebted for the following critique to Monsieur Hikire de Carteret, a genteman who is passing through.-Ed. C.M.J
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S'KE AND MOHAMMEDAY.
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TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS BY LIEUT.-COLL. G. BIRD, D.S.O..
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT,
A question of religion entered into the case of Natha Singh, in the Supreme Court this morning.
Hongkong. Friday, 29th October, 1820. Natha Singh is a Sith. In company. PARADES. The Infantry Battalion, le Reserve Platoon and Machine with Inder Singh he was sued for Gonners will parade on Monday, 1st November, at 5:30 p.m. $884 by H. M. Hajee Esmail, general stores keeper, of 2, Tin Lok Lane, Wanchai, on a bill for stores that they were alleged to have bought.
Inder Singh has departed the Colony, so Natha Singh alone was brought to Court. He denied getting| the goods, and denied also that he had promised to pay for goods
pointed out that Inder Singh had turned Mohammedan, and Indicated indignantly that it was not, to be. supposed he would share stores or food with such a man.
On the evidence, the Court gave him the judgment.
Dress Drill Order,
Attendance. "Strong as possible.
MOUNTED INFANTRY SECTION will, parade with the LIGHT INFANTRY
PLATOON.
From 1st November the following weekly programme of work, will
carried out on days as stated :-
NEW TERROR. IN PARIS. ordered by Inder Singh. He
NERVOUS CRISIS,
THE MURDER OF TAXICAB DRIVERS.
Paris, September 18.-So frequent has become the murder of taxicab drivers by unscrupulous customers who would deprive them, of their day's receipt, that the Parisian chauffeurs are expiriencing a pervors crisis,
THE MARINE GUILDS.
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the back of the head by their patrons, After three drivers were shot in the taxicab drivers asked the Prefect Kirby, the assistant secretary of one With the arrival today of Mr. of Police to be permitted to carry of the Marine Guilds, who came in revolvers and carry along on the seat
Fon the 'Shantung." comes e Wy with them "a dog of the Great Dane, Newfoundland or mastif variety that the backward members of the
Guilds are naw full of...' fight.\ Their request is being discussed at Headquarters.
Day The Place of Parade.
Mondays 6.30 pac-
Beadquarters
Tuesdays 4.30 p.m.
Headquarters.
Fridays 5.30p.m. Headquarters.
Companies Patades.
Infantry and Musketry-Drills, Lewis Gan and Signalling Classes will also be held at the same time. Machine Gun Detachment Farado at same time. Dress for Infantry
and Machine Gunners. Plafo Clothes.
Cadet Company Batid Practice.
· Dress Drill Orlar.
Artillery Drill
Cadet Company Drill.
Draas. Drill Order.
Artillery Drill.
Drass." Drill Order. Machine Gun Detachment Drill. Dress. Plain Clothes,
ORDERS FOR MOUNTED INFANTRY SECTION.
1st November.
The exhibition which you gave me the opportunity to see, and have in vited me to review, does not ask dramatic criticism. There is here re literary or artistic coherence, and no acting at all, so that I am spared the embarrassment of making commenta tion on the local ladies and gentle- men who assuredly did their best. All spoke clearly, and if their movements and gestures frequently made tragic
I most enjoyed the playing of Chand this they find in the "Scrap of WEDNESDAY, 3rd November, what was droll, without doubt they nese stringed instruments by Messes.Paper. If the companies break their were instructed to do so. Mary in Yaa Hok-chan, Ho Lau-tong. Lau word about arbitration they may FRIDAY, this large and fashionable audience Sung sam, Yu Massm, Ng Kim-break other promises.
perceived this drollery, and laughed. The Lord Dunsany is what you call
and Messrs. L. D. Martyn and J. Bar- tholomew rook to make it so. But
It was a misunderstanding on MONDAY,
their part. They did not wish to strike for an increse of pay, but are determined to strike for a principle,
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BLANCHE SWEET CON- TENDS EVE PROVED
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That the female of the species is Sweet contenda was proved by Eve, more deadly than the male. Blanchie
who created the leading feminine role in the tragedy of the Garden of
was and am irritated by the senter tious instruction of the programme compiler, who orders me to regard this as a perfect and briliant spark Eden.
sun and Chan Shiv-tong. Here was The China Mail will devote a graat most truly the element of worder. a deal of space to the question to- a puller of legs, and he has succeed pleasing tinkle of sound in gay tempo, ed most triumphantly in stershing with a queer, querulous note of entry the limb of the person who prepared to the passages that impressed me as the programme that was put into my meaning cnctterable mysteries of, the hands. He speaks. this imbecile, of Orient But I did not ascertain that these ballisions of playfulness as the audience liked it so well. plays, which they are not and be The Lost Silk Hat" was a tar- declares that they signily a renascical curtain-raiser, sufficiently amus- cence of wonder. They are trifles toing to testify the pains that Lieut. J. tease the demi-sanscultures, the hour- B. Franks, Commander A. J. Butler, geois who would seem sage: and say the most simple impertinences of pro- found matters with, as you say, the tongue in the cheek. Is it possible to regard them as having originality Surely po. Regard that they invar- ably hinge on a door or a gate or a from the emery wheel of artistic "Eve," says the beautiful Jesse D. veil, and that they go always to the imagination." This recalls the non-Hampton-Pathe star, "led a dull life East. For wonder? Or for colour? sense of the Yellow Book" years, with Adam, who was the first Bol- Even when the characters are crim when your decadents employed grandi-shevik He never worked and was -iral, belonging to les apachus, origin- loquent expressions for the most com-so lazy he wouldn't even placi kis ality is to find. One vulgar bandit monplace.ideas. "The small thing own fig leaf garments, but waited talks of his mother and the other of beautifully done." writes this pro until they fell from the tree. his sweetheart. All robbers love their gramme pundit.is of inestimably "The monotony of their Bolshev. | mothers. To make the rebirth of greater value that the great thing istic existence began to pall and Eve, wonder we should be told of a crim-borched in the making. But how after careful deliberation, decided to inal who is really criminal, and beats e One may not contradict a thing cat of the forbidden fruit and see if his mother. Even voor Bill Sikes so painfully, so banally true. Ashe couldn't start something and get beat his Nancy, and your Dickers was beautiful little white rat, for example, her name into print" not of the decadents. Me, I go for is inestimably richer than a crippled
Miss Sweet recently “decided to wonder anywhere-not of necessity elephant. A peffect nursery rhyme discard the heavier emotional types to the East. I seek it at the gates of or what you call a Limerick must be of drama with which her name has a woman's eyes. Of what is she truly of so much higher worth than a Para-always been associated in the past to thinking I find it in her inscrutable diso botched, or a Samson Agonistes play her, subtle comedy methods In | play lighter roles enabling her to dis- smile, and I wonder. It is for colour with imperfections. A that the East is here chosen, and it farce, beautifully done, most excel story by Bayard Veilles, showing to "The Derdier, Sex. an original is for colour only that we should be the draina with blemishes. So per day and until Monday at the Coronel asked to praise this spectacle of last chance, in this play we may End a Theatre, Blanche Sweet enacts the night. Unhappily, even then it promise of that perfect comedy of role of Mary Willard, a modern difficult for a writer of conscience. Imanners which Dunsany may one day American girl who proves to a stub- Your theatre is small, and one believes | write." Who is this lecturing poseur? born, headstrong male being that the that the Lord Dunsany, even though I do not know, but I dislike him from opposite sex can be, at one and the fooling the Philistines. contemplated my heart. as an impertinent, an in-same time, the weaker, the deadlier, efects less bijou and more bizarre. competent. a blagaeur mest pro-and the lovelier... Crude colours and bright lights will nounced. He insults both taste and always gratify the human eye, if not intelligence.
music-hall
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
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TOST.On the Sunday morning st
the CYC & SMALL WEITE BITCH Answers to the name of WIMPLE" Finder rewarded- Apply Box 1235, c/o "CHINA MAIL!”
prolonged to the boundary of bose- Of the "Compromise of the King dom. The words spoken on the stage of the Golden Isles" I would wish to were not literature; the acting was say as late as possible. It is a pas- not at better colours and kinetostiche of an ancient and oft-told tale, copic effects can be seen any sunny apparently scribbled in a hurry by the day in Hongkong. Canton, or Saigon; Lord Dussany so that he might send I confess that I became sleepy in the it to his schoolboyish admirers all over Last affair, and closed my eyes. The the world, in America, and here also Golden Doom" is a skit at prayer in Hongkong. Not one of the large and superstition generally. Your company of gifted amateurs engaged bishop would not approve it. The two had here any possible opportunity to children, Down St. Clair Salter and act I copy their names from my pro- D. Davidson, elicit my best compli-gramme. Messrs. H. Freeborn, G. ments for their natural aplomb. The A. Musitano, J. Devar (whom I was other participants in these tableaux glad to embrace after the exhibition) vivants were Messrs.). Dewar, J. L. Parren, S. Agassiz, H. W. Bambi Bartholomew, A. G. Musiano, D. Chaney, L. D. Martyn, D. C. Logan Davidson, A. Simmon, G. S. Sim- (but that is the unfortunate in hos mon, J. F. Komor, I. L. Parren, R.pital), J. A. Bullock, H. C. Mac Green. G. W. Sewell, H. Freeborn namara, R. A. Green, G. W. Sewell, and H. V. Chaney. A note in my R. Stock, A. Lyon, H. Hunt, J. F. programme tells me that Mr. D. C. Kamor, G. S. Simmon, A. Simmon, informed that all Goods are being Logan was prevented at the last -R. Way, and N. V. A. Croucher. moment by sickness. I hope for his The charming ladies who sold these expensive programmnes for the good
-soon recovery.
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Parade with Light Infantry Pistoon at Headquarters. Dress. Drill Order. (Shorts will be worn instead of
Breeches)
5th November. -
Parade at Riding School, Polo Ground, Causeway Bay,
. at 5.15 p.m. Uniform optional.
ORDERS FOR CADET COMPANY BY LIEUT. AJH: WEYMAN,
PARADE The Company-will parade at Headquarters on TUESDAY, 2nd
November, at 5.30 pr.
Dress Drill Order.
BAND. The Band will parade at Headquarters on MONDAY, 1st November,
at 3.30 p.m.
Dress. Drill Order (with instruments).
CAMP. The Company will go into Camp on the last weekend in November. and the first two weekends in December. All Cadets wishing to attend will give their name to their Section Commanders before 5th November. 、 1990.
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G.F. E. RAPSON, B-Major, Adjutant, Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.
NOTES,
1 Members are notified that in future all Orders for ensuing week wili - be published in Local Papers op FRIDAY NIGHTS and SATURDAY MORNINGS. Copies will also be seas to all Clubs in the Colony and members are requested to make themselves acquainted with the Orders.
2.
All members of the INFANTRY BATTALION must notify their Platoon Commanders before the 5th November, of the dates when they are proocod ing to Camp. This is useded owing to arrangements having to be made for Accommodation, Messing etc. Camp is being held at LOWU on the last weekend in November (27th and 28th) and 1st weekend (4th 5th and 6th Bank Holiday) and 2nd weekend (11th and 12th) in December, 1920. Atten- dance at Camp for Three days (3) is required. SATURDAYS count as Half daya
3. MUSKETRY will commence for the INFANTRY on SATURDAY, Novem- bar 6th, and coarse will be fred on Saturday Afternoons and Sunday Mornings antil completed, except the three weekends when Camp is being beld.
with the rest of the progrante. Mrs. Mrs. Ashburet ...... Mrs. R. J. Hali) unless notice to the contrary be given J. S. Jennings and Mr. Howard Free-Miss Bowen... Mrs. J. Humphrey before 20th inst. born sang very agreeably a duet, Miss V. Bowen
No claims will be admitted after the which the audience obliged them to
Mrs. G. N. Humphreys Goods have left the Godowns, and all repeat.
Miss Chapple. Mrs. L. McNicol Goods remaining undelivered after 46 Miss E. Chapple...... Miss Mitchell the 3rd prox, will be subject to rent,
All claims against the steamer, must
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The Glittering Gate "is a simple Miss Young Miss 1. Mitchell sneer at the belief in a future e
Mrs. Eric Grimble. That is its sole motive. Again I'do
be presented to the Undersigned on Messrs. R. H. Kotewall, Fung Yokor before the 13th proxe, or they will not think your Bishop would approve Shum, Li Yau Tsun, and Chan Hoi act be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged
it. For those who, do not believe in Lam deserve praise for many beautifoods are to be left in the Godowns, Heaven, and who are not acquainted ful costumes, These were not plays are they will be dramined on the with the literature of irony, this trifle but tableaux vivants, as I have a 3rd prox. at 10 am, by Goddard may seem superbly witty; but it is Words were spoken, they were quite truly crude sarcasm Messrs. J. A. clearly and distinctly spoken, but they
E. Bullock and J. Dewar are named were unimportant and secuustry:
the frogrammabobetnovapremine your AD.C. should be given
the sardonic laugher behind the scenes the opportunity to show what they can
is not given. This is, unjust, because do with a real play, by a real dramat in the dramatic sense his was theist.
chief part.
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ARTILLERY COMPANY will fire course on Saturday and Sudday, 4th and 5th December, also Saturday and Sunday, 11th and 12th December.
Dummy Chargers for practice in loading may be obtained from Storemas at Headquarters. The Territorial Course to be fired this Training Sesson in, a short one, and it is hoped that as many as possible will endeavor to attend before Camp.
There will be a Practice Shoot on King's Park Range on Saturday and Sunday, 30th and 31st October, at 2.30 p.m.
Ammunition may be obtained from Hexiquarters.
There will be a Meeting of the Corps Shooting Committes at Heviquarters on Tuesday, ad November, at 6.00 p.m.
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