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The Steam Launch “Brenda "
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Que Boller xx s. Tug “ Dragon" Diameter 9' 3*"
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OF
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About 1000 Obsolete British Colonia! | Stamps, including ecme rare ant per- fect copies of Early Great Britain
and Hongkong.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue).
On view from Monday the 27th inst. Terms: Cash on delivery.
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On
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at Glen Iris" No. 174, The Peak
(Magazine Sap)
"A" Qukatity"or"
Valuable Household
Farnitare
(Bedroom sid Dining Room furniture
by Wm. Powell, Ltd.)
On view from Sunday the 2nd April Catalogues on application.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONGKONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
ACTION No. 2 of 1920.
Between Lau Trx Tsau, I als
Tang Shi, Lau She
Shi, Lau in thi
and Lan Li Shi
and
lan Shin Chun
Plaintifi
Defendant.
By order of the Bapreme Court
of Boogko.g
and
Under the direction of the Registrar, Suprema Couri
Merata. Lammert Bers. bäre re- eived instructions to zal.hr. Pablic Anction on Wednesday the 12.h day of -April 1922, at 3 o'clock pan.
WITHOUT RESERVEDS
All the right title and fate end of the borenamed defendant au Shiu Chnen Hline Can Wai Chun or {Chan) of and in the following properties atuate in the
lony of Bongky.
Non 402 and 404 Des Voeux Road
West and
For 27A and 39TB Quem's Road
bing Idle Lot No. 1143,
Fo. 27 Bisham Bund, Victóris, Heine Sab-section 2 of Section ̈É, of Marine Lot No £
The above first named property is gold subject to mi erishing mortgagès
Carstwie and conditions of 250 cas
www.DESNYS & BOWLET 6. Die Vorne Bovi Cenizal,
Hot hoog.
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ON READING ALOUD.
A RARE PLEASURE: MANY DEGREES OF GOOD AND
BAD READING.
was the same. The whole passage was read in a manner which made the reading more than a mere rendering; COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED
it was an interpretation, producing the same impression as a sonata play- ed by a pianist with imagination, cra *ymphony conducted by a cordactor | with genius,
A day or two sgo I enjoyed a rare
WHY SO KARE.? pleasure: the pleasure, that is to say,
Why is good reading aloud so rare? of hearing the lessons wally well read` in church, writes Artifex in the The answer is obvious. The art is not Manchester Guardian. Alas! it is a cultivated I wonder how many rare pleasure in more than one sense people in England during the last
words sre
IN THE "MAIL."
ENTERTAINMENTS.
March
Thestre, 29.-Coronet Wauda Hawley in "Her Beloved Villain" and the Carpentier-Cook Fight. Hongkong Theatre, "Female Rafles," "Worst of Friends" and Oily Scoundrel." World Theatre, Bessie Barriscale in "The
dansant.
March 30.-Coronet Theatre Louise
Glaumin “I am Guilty."
Arril 2-Coronet Theatre, Mary Fickford in "The Hoodlum."
SPORTING EVENTS.
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March 30-Hongkong Boring tournament. Association, novices Theatre Royal, 7. p.m.
March 31-Hongkong Boxing Association, novices tournament. Theatre Royal, 7 p.m.
featherweight and middle-weight Boyal championships. Thestre Matinee 2.30 p.m. Evening 9.15 p.m.
•
of the word, for it cannot be said that week have either read aloud, or been Cast Of Kowloon Theatre, Mar- the general standard of reading in our treat, for pleasure. Yet reading shall Neilan's "Go and Get It" churches is a high one. There are, of aloud was once a recognised source Hongkong Hotel, Fancy dress dinner course, many degrees of good and bad of pleasure, and from the time reading. I well remember, for in- of Miss Austen, in whose stance, the fearful joy with which I novels there are frequent e used to look forward, when I was a ferences to the practice, down to small boy, to the season when the the end of the Victorian period it last chapters of the First Book cf bulks big in our social history. When the Kings would be read in church I was a little boy I was fortunate and I could hear a worthy but enough to know one home where the uneducated lay reader call Ahab mother, an aunt who always lived "Hay-ab," with strong emphasis with the family, and a second aunt, a ́ and aspiration of the first syllable, frequent visitor, all three siters of a all through the leason. But, with professor of English literature and aut sinking to such depths, there language, were exquisite reader. are plenty of faults of which a Future-houses were then not dreamed reader can be guilty. Not merely of; music-balls were regarded, gener strange proper names tet ordinary ally with reason, as disreputabletion, novices tournament finals, April L-Hongkong Boxing Associa- mispronounced; the in the particular home I refer to res endings of words are clipped so augusta dos made frequent visits to that the final consonant, especially the theatre impossible. A pantomime if it is a d, t or th, is unheard"; at Christmas, and a visit once a year sentences are rushed so that the to a travelling circus, or to "Pepper e opening words are inaudible, and Ghosts," or some similar entertain- the voice drops so at the end that ment, were about the limit of such in- the final words are lost as completely dulgences. And so from September as the opening ones were; little words to Easter reading alood was the are either omitted altogether ar pleasure of most evezings Scott represented by a gasp which beam (and it is no light task to read The to bad voice production. Fitate load, or even to do justice to And, even when these elementary the broad Doric of theLowland novels), faults are absent, there is too often no Dielens, Thackeray, George Eliot, ffort to weld the different sentences Chadotte Bronte, Fraimore Cooper, into an intelligible whole, so that the Macaulay's Essays and History (dull entire passage read may be an artistic murt the child be who would not unity. It is, of course, comparatively thrill to the story of Judge Jeffreys easy to read one of the simple and and the Blogdy Assize), Bhakespeare, straightforward narratives of the Tennyson's Idris, Scott's narrative Guepels, but the same certainly can- poems, much of Longfellow-all were not be said of mary parsages from read aloud and all enjoyed. I believe St. Paul's Epistles, with their frequent much of the fanty English we hear paratheses, rapid transitions of to day is due to the decay of the thought, and ioroved and compressed passtice of reading and being read to. arguments. Still lure is it tras of No language was ever yet Insened
the eye -passes from the Old Testament, from gratuar books or by t
more especially some of the minor along. This is abundantly proved by prophets. Yet it was one of the most the fact that there are thousands of Offices, difficult chapters in the Old Testa educated Englishmen and women who met with which the reader I have can read and enjoy a French, Ger- mentioned made his success, and he man of Italian book who cannot con- was equally, if less strilingly, rifective verse for five minutes in say one of
witness
in is passage of simple - narrative those
in the second lesson. Ho was a ztzan: one of
ger to me, so I do not know, and did
lot like to ask after the service, whe ther he had read over the first loc
PUBLIC AUCTION SALES, March 30,-Lammert Bios, type- writers, gramophone, and piano. Šales Rooms, 2.30 p.m.
March 30.--Lammert. Bros., one toiler er steato tug "Dragon" and the steam lannon "Brenda. Tsikoo Dockyard, 11 a.m.
March 30 Hughes and Hough, household furniture and 300 books. Sales Booms, 10.30 s.10.
March, 31.--Lammert Bros benlete British Colonial stamps. Sales Rooms, 5 p.m. v...
April 12, Bammert Bros., by order of the court, the interest of Lau Shin Chuen in certazí properties.
March
ngkong Fire In- 53cd ordinary Managets
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