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THE CHINA MAIL.
gregated there was always' fun and excitement. They-made life joze AI it ware.
"Harry Who's he!" "Ah! You're dead jealous," said Raymonde in satisfied tone I suppose he didn't care for for me either, for he went to Hong- kong and I haven't heard from him |not once, ever since.” ... She began
to weep afresh.
Perhaps he went down in that ten deep crash and never came up again!
XMAS GIFT.
CABINET
MARINO,
Admiralty.. Agriculture
Bootland....
Nons (No war.)
.W. W. Jacoba.
..Rider Haggard.
„J. M.- Barris.
Exchequer...............J. M. “Keynes.
HOW
GOT..
#19
'SATURDAY, DEUE MRB34.23, 19.
HONGKONG TRADE.
THE DROP IN EXCHANGE.
The fortnightly trade report feaned
That charming orsayist, with an average run of 100 nights, the god of evil, fashioned an arrow THAT E.V: Lucas, in his latest had yielded another £254,400, Dumas from the mistletoe bough and gave it volume? Giving and Be then enumerated the various workers to the blind Hoder to test. Inder That "famous bar" possibly ex
calving," has some in-printers, paper makers, binders, fired the arrow and killed Balder. teresting things about shep-koopera, actors, thantre om- He was restored to lité and dedicated plains a later passage in this new Christmas parents. Prolane as well ployees, etc.-for whom the books the mistletoe plant to his mother. novel, which the publishers proudly, as sacred history, he says, tells us and plays had provided employment. Thenceforward it was declared harm. by the Hoogkooz & feral Chamber of announce was closely in the run more of the giving of presents than He estimated that bis labours had less, as long as it did not touch the Commerce states:-
of their reception, but he adds, we created amployment enough Ding" for a £500 prize. The most have, an a rale, no information either 2 150 prane for twenty years with love instead of death. Mistletoe war, on code-Since we last wrote there
for ground, and became the emblem of Cotton piece goods and faney cot distinguished guest, a nal baronet as to the remarks made by the ra a daily wage of three frano, Datase accordingly hung up, and those who has been a fair amount of business in speaks:
cipient whose appraising eye checked was not elected.
pussed beneath it exchanged the kiss Grey and White Shirtings, mostly at off the apes and the ivory and the
Had he a country all of peace. The old Norseman took rates far below replacing values, peacocks, or the consultations of the Ministers of State as the consignment
bir own, a local book the custom to England, and with the Sales of Fancy Goods have been man tells me, this is the use of mistintos as 'n Christmas'de effected on a moʻlerate seale, at sat- of generosity was being made up.
Ministry ho. would coration the kiss of pesos naturally isfactory rates. A Revised Standard This deficiency "E.V." "proceeds to •elect "
survived.
Form of Contract for Fancy Goods remedy. "One can see them in Prime Minister........G. B. Shaw.
The legend of Santa Claus has now been decided upon, and it is committee a few days before the Foreign Affairs.... ..H. G. Wells.
gose away back to the to be hoped that this will prove per- Indis... monarch sets forth on his expedition
Rudyard Kipling. SANTA Bomia of the fourth cen, manently satisfactory to all parties to the friendly state: Don't you Wat....
OLAUS tary, to the time of an early concerned. Clearances have fallen off. think (the Chancellor of the Ex-
Christian saint, named Cotton Yarn:-The continued chequer in speaking), 'don't you think!
Nicholas, who was bishop declina in exchange bas rendered sive? Wouldn't one hundred do!! two hundred milk-white steeds: exces
NAKE. of Myra, in Lycia. He business extremaly difficult." Dealers had auch a love for are reluctant to pay enhanced rates **Or even fifty," says the Home Lord Chancellor,.G. K. Chesterton. little boys that soon he came and in consequence only an insigni- Witter Bynner, the Secretary.
Home Affairs.......Hilaire Bellos. to be regarded as their patron ficant business has transpired at American poet who
"Yes, or even fifty. It isn't as if
Attorney General..
aoint, an office which he still slightly higher prices. visited China this year we were visiting a really first-clas
John Galsworthy. fills in Catholic countries. On the are Quotations argNo. 10, $158/185. to translate Chinese power-and so with the bars of gold, Poet Laureata...John Masefield. of St. Nicholas, the 25th of December, No. 128 $161/184. No. 16s $182/197. poems into English hatho precious stones, the spicea (such Touching, the child-like simplicity the children, are gathered together. No.: 20s $175/200, Arrivals. 7,500, Dow returned to bis as the Queen of Thaba carried to of this bookman friend! As if the and given gilt nuts and swestmeste. Shipmente nil. Bales 1,500 bales. native land. One of the froits of his Sulemon), all would have to contagion weren't bad enough In course of time, the name of this
Unsold stock 10,000 bales. Bargains Oriental journeys is the following be carefully measured according to already. The mind reels at the thought saint became corrupted into Banta 10,0 bales. poem which appeared in the New York the importance of the other king or of the literary flood which would Claus.
Woollens-The market is again Nation under the beading "A Good the need of his alliance
burst loose when (and perhaps even
That is what the learned quiet. The drop in exchange potting bye from the Ship":—
"And there is his side of the before) the Cabinet resigned, the transaction: Well, 1 must say countless "Purging Politics,"
MERE'S will tell you, but of course Bradford prices too far out,
Good any child can tell you they think they might have been a little "Salvaging Europe." and "How I
CHEER are wrong. What are their less mingy. Only five hundred bales Did It" books that would come of silk! Not enough for more than streaming from the overworked the hazy past compared with the We shared blue mornings on the sea, half the ladies of the Court; for you prasee. Imagine, too, a debate in delightful reality of every Christams can't expect any two to wear the the house, "If the honourable mora? And it is that wondrous same colour. And only thirty member will recall the passage in my spirit, the spirit of glorious make paifreys! Distinctly on the mean book be wil-what i the honourable believe which stern adults must allow Bide,"
⚫member hasn't read
Speaker I consider the honourable care and capture for them the magic to fill their hearts and dissipate their member unfit to be a member of this the happy child enjoys in this House and I move
wondrous festive season..
THIS
FOR TEE
.: POETIC.
Meetings are only partings, friend. We might have known
Ltd. That in the end
--Powell
Tel. Central 3871
JUST RECEIVED.
ELEGANT WRAPS
AND
MOTOR COATS
J
LATEST MODELS
IN
WICHERTS
·FOOTWEAR FOR LADIES.
"Oh my dear Mrs Quiteright, what a lovely bor of Cigara. Wherever did pan buy them ?" " Yea, dear, they are nice. I bought them for my Bubby for llie Xmas box, and from the Hongkong Cigar Shure. They › have such a be-ly lok". ** Come with me thoa, I must get a h x for my *
Oll Boy." And they did hut You can all come, we have plenty more.
Ene China Mail."
**TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE "
HOYGRUND, SATURDAY, DEC. 23, 1928.
ALEXANDRA BUILDING9.
Bolatice, Yale when the night begins to decrease and the day to increase, when the year turns and hope is born again because the woreb is
over.
Every ons goes bis way alone.
White mountain moons, You played for me
On your bamboo-flute the Chinese
tunes...
That went with wine-cups and thesong Chrysanthemum rang,
Tan stanzas long.
When she laughed with us
Chinking.
in
Parc were the poems you explaine On Canton walls
The day it rained;
And always now the twilight falls More quietly because you said: "This is the hour
When griefe are shed
As light as petals from a flower,” These things and other things are mice To bless you for.
We send a sign
O goodwill, between ship and shore. Mestings like ours have always shone
Beyond their end-
But we might have known,
Meetings are only partings, friend.
From this our carayist draws the moral and suggests that is might do world of good if one Christmas we all decided to tell the truth and say exactly what we thought of our presents,
Thank you for nothing. I can se where you're erased your own name. and put mine in." "Surely I was worth more than three-and eleven! I saw these at Harker's last week and noted the price." "What's the une of giving me a diary when you must know I never keep one 1 "Good heavens, you don't really expect me to wear a tie of that colour 1"
However, as E.V." sees himself
Mr.
Bad
as politice are at present I think they're still the lesser of the two evila.
TEINGS LLOYD
The Welsh Wizard" seemingly bas now definitely lost the prem GEORGE iership, He can ESCAPED, temper his grief, ho- wever, by pandering the fate of some of his predecessore, as set forth in "A Short History of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain" published in 1733, This concludes with a tabulated statement prepared
.
abstruse researches into
Be yb merry and make good cheer For Christmas comes but once a
-year-
Bompe the fiddle and beat the
drum
And bury the night ers morning
come."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Raw Cottons:-Owing to an entire abrence of stocks there is nothing fresh to report and quotations are. purely nominal. Indian descriptione at $30/35 Chinese grades at $32/39. Metals-The drop in exchange
has put prices beyond the level dealers will pay, and although, there
little business has been reported. I is a certain amount of enquiry, very will be some time before the market adjusts itself to the present basis of exobange and prices,
Flour market report:-Stock About 600,000 sacks,,
Quotations:-American Fatent $3.90 per sack, American Straight $2.90 per sack, American Cut off $3.00 per sack, Shanghai Flene. $2.95 per sack, Australian No. 1, $3.20 per sack.
Sundries Window Glass, Market steady to firm, on account of fall of silver exchange.
Saltpetre: The unexpectedly sur
**Owing to the Christmass boli-prising collapse in Rupes exchange
this candour would probably result in for the benefit of any reader "desirous days the China Mail will not be has considerably strengthened the the disintegration of the human to behold at one view the diversa published again until Wednesday marks). family which is largely-held together casualties of the sundry Prime Min-afternoon.
by compromiss and he thinks theistars above mentioned.".... truth larks in the statement that no
BAKERS' STRIKE,
3.
10.
Mr. A. G.. M. Fistoker C.M.G.,
3. C.BE. has resumed daty as Clark of 3. Councils.
Dyd by the halter.
$3
by the are
..stardy beggars.
untimely by private bands
strike,
12
in imprisonment.
4.
Fa
in esile.... penitent..
4.
And yet some still fail to present is worth having unless the THE appreciate the necessity for giver would rather have kept it
stera st ARMS the
sentences. himself. EVIL. Ponder this from Pakhoi reader: A few days ago a canting steamer from Hongkong brought a passenger here with s hundred repeating revolvers, He had apparautly eluded the Hongkong. police and the Pakhoi customs, or be was £ually caught by the harbour polico in a hotel with the armi in his possession." One hundred—that's a tidy haul.
LOOKING
FAR
AHEAD.
"Peace on earth, and goodwill to men." That
WHAT
THEY REALLY MEAN.
WBO
"Two or three" always at least three, meand or three and upward. "Oae or two" seldom if ever meane one. "In the same faith Burns preached when be where from five to fifty minutes, a micute" means any- boned for
the day That reminds me of a story When man to man the warld o'er means, "Now you keep quiet while I aball brothers be." And that is the tell my joke," "I bold no brief for” ideal we must ever strive towards,
means: "I Mill for (quoting Arnold Bennet yet onde
now going to more) we see a "revolving globe that defend-"While I do not wish to not lose heat. A wordly ambition, around a ball of fire; which, in turo. Of course it's no business of mine" whizzes through elemental space going to have my say out anyhow." appear critical" means, "But I am
ON EARTH.
Christiana, awake, PEACE salute the happy morn!" Although we celebrate Christmas fiva times since the band of war was stayed, we are stil far from realising the ideal "Peace on earth and goodwill to men." But we used
as Arnold Bennett has pointed out, is rushing with all its satellites at an means, "I am simply devoured with
can be, frequently ia, realised: but an ideal cannot be attained-if it could,
it would not be an ideal. And therein
CAN
YOU
ZEM?
inconceivable speed from nowhere to curiosity." "My conduct calls for nowhere, and to the surface of the re-
no apology and needs no explanation" volvig, whizzing globs a multitude is the usual introduction for au
The bakkers' observes a wag, appears to have been much adough about nothing! The toming-over & now- leaf season now upon us, the following from the Sunday Times wakes very "YEAR" __topical reading and pasted over your calender might
tion :- well serve as your new year inspira
FOR THE
NEW
A little more kindness,
A little less orend,
A little more giving,
A little less greed,
A little more smile,
A little less frown,
A little less kicking,
A man when he's down.
A little more "we," A little less "I,” A little more laugh, A little less cry,
A little more flowers On the pathway of life And fever on graves At the end of the strife.
THE
WOULD HAVE DEEN DEITER.
that
The Supreme Court's Christmas
1. vacation will commence on December 1.24 and terminate on January 1.
Saved by sacrificing bis master Bum total of Prime Ministera.. 28.
Last week the Colony
STİNGY REVELLER.
DISPUTE OVER RIGSHA
FARE HOME.
A Chinese pines good. broker living in Landale Street, Wanchi, charged
a ricaba cool'e before Mr. R. E Lind- sell with having refused to take ́a
Mrs. W. W. Peame, wifs of the fare. The complainant, in the wit had in its midet four Medical Officer for Health, has re-ass box, said he had been to MAGICIAN'S ̧ magicians not count- turned to the Colony from Home,
... TOX
ART...
Shektongohui last night, and returning
at 2 a.m., be tid to engage the defendant a ricaba, near the Central Market, tu take bim home. He offer:
but defendant Tríos .
Magistrate: What "only 10 cante"
ing (of course) the sorcerer who fixes the The Government Gazelle, no1ifios exchange rate, the wizard who that the dams of the Kung Ping Com sate the fashion in sox, and the mercial Agensy Coy., has been etracked defendant 10 cents the journey demon who played me off the register. poker Friday. For professional magicians able to saw women in twain and turn water into boering Mr. Seiichi Takahashi to act as what an opportunity was here, my Consal General for Japan at Hong- masters! And what a woeful apathy. Long has received "Tis Majesty's Could they have been induced to sigasture. sweep away the barriers of professional
The King's Exequatur empower
rivalry and combine their art, think The total output of the Kailan what wonders these four might have Mining Administration's mines for the performed. Way, properly roused, week ending December 9, amounted instead of resting content to trans to $1,651 tons and the sales during form one glass of water they might the period to 60,087 tous. have turned the whole barbour into boor!
DID
HIS
attention unto itself. The
There will be an Xmas Draw of
3
to take you all that distance at 2
'clock in the morning?
Complainant: That is what I have always paid.
Magistrate: Then you deserve to bs refused. Stand down.
Defendant was discharged.
MILITARY LANDS.
HON. MR. POLLOCK TO INQUIRE
Information about the progress of the military lande schone will be sought by the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.O., at the mosting of the legislati Council which is to be held nest Thursday.. Mr. Pollock wil sak
Will the Government give in formation to the Council is to the progres: of the negotiaticis for the transfer of the Military Establish menta from their present its trother sites which will not impede tip com mercial and residential: expansion of the Colony t
FOSTERING EDUCATION.
HONGKONG MERCIANT'S
GIFTS.
The raucous mater, hooter Toys at the New Garden City from lies the great secret of Christmas,
But if you find that too
to 6 p.m. on Sunday 24th inst. The nainance here is yet another, This is the senson when we renew our and these living things in the midst could possibly have mistaken my of living things desperately olinging: spofogy or an explanation. "No one
long to remember, or even -but why waste words procede will go towards the Garden fading-hope in our ideal, when we of cataclysmio danger, and between meaning" is what we say when some
FINAL to read, every day perhaps
calling attention to this evil City Kindergarten School Fund. All sake fresh heart and strive anew.
WORD. you will remember the BEST. When it daily, hourly shrieks are welcome. (Advert.) twie the
enigmaa of birth one has mistaken it
single quotation That Christmas has lost and deatb, qaartelling and hating,
contains the essence of every teaching, Hongkong motorist's attitude is typi opportunity of seeing The Three The week-end presents the last auch of its quondam sen and calling themselves kings and
Thene definitions of avary philosophy since the world find in the story an American paper Musketeers at the Coronat as the timent and magic is un queens sud millionaires and beautiful HONGKONG'S framed 18A8 depiable, but oven to-day, women and aristocrats and geniares
by began. You recognise it?"To tells of a speed maniac who ran head-creating of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," LITTLE American in these hard, material and facqueys and superior persons)"
paper thine own self be true, and it must en into a six-story office building the Jristmas weak attraction foster times, a medern philoro-Surely after that vision you believa
DEFINITIONS. apply everywhere, follow, as the night the day, thou and after regaining consciousnessing Mity Pickford, is due to begin on pher (in the person of Arnold Bennett) the barriere between men are only a lew Hongkong one. "Lend me
They also suggest canst not then be falie to any man," weakly munnured, “ I blew my horn "
Monday. asures us that "the spirit and rites artificial, that a world brotherhood is fifty dollars
Several literary men,
Capping this, though, is of anci nt Christmas are kept ap, possible. Our common humanity
meats (very often)" PROMISES. notably H. G. Wells, | EVEN the joke appearing in the more or less in their full vigoarlet mankind but ones grasp that and drink" means quite four every day.
In the absence of any nominations give me" that amount. "I rarely
BETTER. letest Punch. The picture to fill the vananey on the Licensing were among the can- didates in the Tocent.
shows G motor and splendour, by a race of beings the great ideal ceases to be an idle Exchange don't interest me"
CA Board caused by the retirement of MË that is scattered over the whole dream and becomes a xal hope, a means "I'm now pretty heavily in
talking shop scramble. hurtling down a dangerous incline. fobray Northcote, HE the earth
a raos mysterious, certain prospect,
This is not the first Nervous passenger inquires: Governor bay appointed Mr. Uhatoner debt."Let us have a really long time that literary mon have sought "What's that queer. Found 1 Irish masterful, conservative, imaginative,
Hence ye grumblers walk" naually means a stroll along political honoura, though few-have.
Granville Alabaster, K.O., O.B.E. J.P. chauffeur repliesTis the foot- passionately e'ticere, arriving from we
to be a member. TEAT bence! What would ye? Bowen Road, Play until clave gained the spectacular eminence of a break giving away, Sur. The hand- know ant where, dissolving before our
FAMOUS A "brighter Hongkong" "elnek almost invariably means play. d'Annuncio. eyes we know not how
Oon of the most in-break is broken, but don't be onsisy, Lieutenant W. St. A. Hallenan Mé. Fung Ping-shang, the wealthy .. the
BAR
forsooth, Harking until daylight (unless the whisky teresting futters was made by the Borr-the hostor is alright." children by virtue of whore faith AGAIN - then :i
[V.O,, R.N., who took an astive pirt merobaut of Saavui, who con gives out before then.) "Sorry old felder Dumas, whose name is specially the reindeer are still trampling the
I abail be dull whes, they are man,
The Best onlebration in the formation of the E.A.8.M.A.tributed $110.000 towards th Canton I'd put you up myself familiar in the Colony just now owing
of Christmas task and bookma firat President of the High Normal School buildig fands gone, observed Aunabel [wife of a but you so I cry no weight," the interest the screen verion of ons Actually this December fabulously wealthy Malay States astly means "What propues you of ble most famous books,
MISTLETON place in the year A. D. organisation. was amongst the party and $10,000 for the prize (und fa *The WDEN twenty five was not the planter entertaining guests in a for the club. Hah!! I just so Three Musketeers,"
98, but not until of naval officers who ft for Home total of $125,000) is also a prosinent is arousing. day Christians celebrate palatial jungle home.] Can't we all love bridga
thirty nine years later by the Blas Fanual... Mentor" marchant here. He is propietor of means the speaker Duse once stood for a Paris division was this feast recognised by the yesterday.
the Bhi Bang Hong a member of as the greatest in history, go to Hongkong?'
io probably A post mortem and, his alnotion address ji Church. Some of our modern
the District Watchman Oɔmmittee, TURNS. That is a known and "I'll take you a trip to Japan, expert. Can I borrow
admitted fact. Why, then, darling, instead,"
this unique. Convinged that statistica Christmas customs find their originIt is rumoured that a new and a Director of the People's promised her book!" means "You might as well made the most effective appeal gain the dim era of myth and ingond. Company called the Hongkong Realty Savings Corporation Mr. Furg Pis was the Christmas feast fixed for that Lusband
give it to me." "I'm not much of a summarised the material services the The use of mistletoe, for example, and Trust Coy, is to be Rosted for shang is one of those philotoplits day? Our cama bappy philosopher "Apnatel wade no reply to this. inger" neually means exactly that community, had derived from bis is first found in Scandinavias the parpose of acquiring the Wise who give and "blush to find illame gives answer, explaining that What was the uso She would ste" Have one mesas I'll pay for literary output. Fur twenty years, mythology, Learned authorities re-man sito in Des Voeux Road and Christians were not, at first, united into it that she didn't go to Japan, thil round you pay for the second; he pointed out, he had worked fan late that the god Balder way the erecting upon it a big building to the celebration of Christmas; some he had no friends there and she be'll pay for the third, I'll pay for hours a day, producing 400 volumes Apollo of the North; he was also contain effis premises, safe deposit
The Best Cough Medicine. eping it in January, some in April: know that a trip to Bongkang would the fourth you'll pay for the file suit 95 plays, Faking 4,000 as the supposed to be invulnerable That vaate, a drock Exchange Funds largest colling cough med dine intu Chamberlain a Cough Remedydis to and others in May It was, aba more exciting. There were lots of he'll pay for the fixth. I'll pay f'x-average number of each work-printed, is to say, his mother, Fringg, had and a shopping arcade. It is underworld today: Pocmuso lido's sxanty- pre-Christian force, he asserts, which men there. She had heard that, in bio-revenih you'll, yoush pay-hie and placing the selling prios at decreed that nothing which had its stood that half of the 200 000 shares drove them all into agreement on the the famous bar, they stood in rowedah; he'll pay... ninsh; I'il, five frapes aploos, bie books has roots in air, earth, fire, or water at 319 each will be offered to the 4wenty 8fth of December-the winter ten deep, every day. Where men con- tenth.
earned £474,114 The plays, noch should hurt him. Thereupon Loki, pablio.
sky.
THE
YEAN
twellah.
THE.
KISS
stop oorghs and oulds dilse
top coughs and oulds do dilsed
nisstually, Frie, mala by al Chemis and Storekoopses. Stalna boln